Antonio Vallejo Triano

Curator of Cultural Heritage for the Junta de Andalucía (the Andalusian regional government) and Director of the archaeological site of Madinat al-Zahra.

Antonio Vallejo Triano is a curator of Cultural Heritage for the Junta de Andalucía (the Andalusian regional government) and, since 1985, has served as the Director of the archaeological site of Madinat al-Zahra. Vallejo Triano received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Jaén, Spain and has been an honorary member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1999. He has worked in different Andalusian archaeological sites such as Bezmiliana (under the direction of Professor Manuel Acién Almansa), Teba and the palace of Jerez de la Frontera in Cádiz, as well as taken part in various projects of restoration of Islamic cultural sites. He is director of the journal Cuadernos de Madinat al-Zahra and is an advisory member of the editorial staff for the publication Arqueología y Territorio Medieval. Vallejo Triano is a member of the Andalusian Archaeological Commission, is an adviser on archaeological matters for the Junta de Andalucía, and has participated in several research and development projects. Among his publications are Madinat al-Zahra: Guía del Conjunto Arqueológico (2004), “Madinat al-Zahra: Transformation of a Caliphal City,” in Revisiting al-Andalus. Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond (2007); and La ciudad califal de Madinat al-Zahra. Arqueología de su arquitectura (2010).

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