The “Decorated Cities” workshops, intended for children and families, has the purpose of creating a space for creative reflection on our cities’ cultural heritage and their architecture, putting into action a knowledge of aesthetics and its relationship with the humanities. 

This time around, they will be focusing on Casa Árabe’s Madrid headquarters, inside a building known as the “Aguirre Schools,” declared a Site of Cultural Interest in February 2025 and considered to be one of the main examples of Neo-Mudéjar architecture in the city, a highly complex and expressive historicist trend which emerged in the late nineteenth century. This style revived elements of the Islamic architectural tradition on the Iberian Peninsula, with features such as exposed brickwork, horseshoe arches and geometric decorations which evoke the legacy of Al-Andalus.  

The workshops will be providing an introductory experience and are designed to encourage intergenerational participation. 

They will be taught to a single group in which people of different ages get to work together on the same activity.  

It is mainly intended for families with children between the ages of 7 and 12, accompanied by adults. 

It is being held as part of the project “Threads of the Diaspora,” for the recovery and dissemination of heritage related to traditional Palestinian embroidery and cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean.

This program has been given support by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).