Alcazar
Alcázar is a Spanish word meaning castle, palace or fortress, from Arabic القصر al qasr.
Alcázar or Alcácer (from Portuguese) may refer to:
- Alcácer do Sal, a city in Setúbal, Portugal.
- Alcázar, one of the palaces and fortresses in Spain called by this name.
- Alcázar de Colón, former residence of Christopher Columbus's son Diego in Santo Domingo.
- Alcázar de San Juan, a town in La Mancha, Spain.
- Alcazar (band), a Swedish europop/dance music group.
- Alcazar Hotel (disambiguation), historic hotels in Canada and the United States
- Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress, a 1985 video game by Tom Loughry released for the ColecoVision console and home computers
- Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War
- *El Alcázar, name derived from the above - a newspaper that expressed the views of the búnker, the extreme right that opposed any democratization, during the Spanish transition to democracy
- General Alcazar, the name of a character featured in many of the Tintin comic books
- Roberto Alcázar y Pedrín, a Spanish comic strip from the Franco era
- Alcazar (Paris) (or Alcazar d'Hiver), a Café-concert located in the Rue du Faubourg Poissonière, Paris.
- Alcazar d'Été, a Café-concert located in the Champs-Élysées, Paris
Cognate names:
- Alcàsser is the Valencian name of a Spanish city (province of Valencia)
- Alcocer derives from a diminutive of alcázar
- Alcazarquivir is the Spanish name of Ksar-el-Kebir, location of the battle of Al Kasr al Kebir
- Alcácer-Quibir is the Portuguese name of Al Kasr al Kebir, location of the battle of Al Kasr al Kebir