Ralli Museum - Safardí Memorial

Status: Built
Location: Cesarea, Israel
Type: Museum

The Ralli Museum is a museum in Casarea, Israel, built in 2007 and entirely dedicated to Sephardic Jewry, and especially during the Golden Age of the Jews in Spain.

The building is built following the Spanish Mudejar architectural style with a large courtyard in the center, where there is a fountain with twelve lions called Columbus Fountain (after the discoverer of America), being a replica of the fountain of the lions of the Palacio de la Alhambra de Granada made of the same material (Blanco Macael), cuyo origen se cree que se remonta al palacio del Rey David en Jerusalén. La fuente está rodeada de esculturas de Marble Macael White of four of the great thinkers, scientists, and Talmudists of the time - Maimónides, Ibn Gabirol, Yehuda Haleví and Spinoza.​

The courtyard is also made up of 66 columns in White Macael Marble16 columns in Alcañiz Sandstonean obelisk in Ivory Cream and a replica of the portico of the Christopher Columbus façade, in Las Palmas. Finally, a large 1000 m2 cloister clad in Alhama Travertine with 16 columns in Macael white with 9 sculptures in Macael white.

Materials White Macael Marble, Alcañiz Sandstone, Ivory Cream, Alhama Travertine