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Aerial view of a Safira garden city: individual villas, private gardens and pools among palms and olive trees.

The scaleof a city.

The privacyof a home.

Private garden cities · Inspired by Al-Andalus

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One destination. Life, work and culture, conceived together.

Grand villas, a work quarter, a library, a club, gardens and horses — within one master plan.

02The Safira world

Safira is a large-scale private garden city: exceptional villas, premium workplaces, sport, gastronomy and culture, within one destination.

One master plan for living, work, sport, gastronomy and culture. Shared life has its place; each home keeps its privacy.

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Families along Safira’s palm-lined water promenade, with a library, dining terraces and gardens.
A private city · Conceived as a whole

A private city.Conceived as a whole.

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A grand individual villa with a garden and pool.
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Residences

Grand individual villas, each with a protected garden and its own arrival.

Office pavilions beside a green ceramic water channel.
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Work

Premium offices and family headquarters, in a work quarter with its own access.

Neighbours of different generations gathering under a pergola.
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Knowledge

A library, workshops and a cultural programme, chosen by each resident.

Tennis courts, pool and palm gardens.
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Sport and leisure

Grounds and landscapes for an active life, defined with each place. The horse, in every Safira.

Dining terraces beside the water garden at dusk.
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Gastronomy and encounter

Restaurants, terraces and a residents’ club connected to the promenade.

Visitors, work and service move on their own routesThe home remains a refuge
03Al-Andalus, reimagined

Al-Andalus.Reimagined.

For the way we live, work and come together today.

Courtyards, shade, water and craft come from the past. How homes, work and shared life relate — and the freedom to choose — belong to the present.

Contemporary walnut and linen furniture in a salon opening onto a courtyard.
04A residence

For every villa,
an architecture of its own.

Each villa is conceived individually: its plot, orientation, courtyard and arrival belong to that house alone, with a garden of its own and views onto its own landscape.

The courtyard
turns the house inward.

Water, a tree and a lattice hold the light; the street stays far away.

Signed
by its makers.

Doors, lattices, fountains and glazed walls are commissioned for each house and signed by their makers.

Carved cedar doors opening onto a private water garden.
Private courtyard with a reflecting pool, lattice and arches.
Close view of a handcrafted carving in wood and bronze.
01 / 03The villa
Private arrival at a villa with tiled roofs and cedar screens at sunset.
05Privacy and security

A private worldwithin the world.

Privacy and security are founding requirements of the plan, set before the first villa is drawn.

Privacy

Distance between residences. Views onto each home’s own landscape. Calm through gardens, water and walls. Discreet service, present when wanted.

Security

Protection conceived with the master plan: controlled access, separate routes for residents, guests and services, and an operation designed from the outset, defined with each country and site.

Families in the terraced water garden in the morning.
Residents reading and talking in the library.
The club gallery with arches and lanterns at dusk.
A dapple-grey Arabian horse before the stables.
06Knowledge, sport and encounter

Curiosity finds a home.

07:30A day at Safira
Alone

A morning in the courtyard, with the sound of the water and a book.

In conversation

An evening in the library, with a historian, an artisan or a neighbour.

At the club

A table under the gallery when company is wanted; gardens shared by the residents.

On horseback

A ride through the olive groves before the light goes.

A private equestrian centre, with stables, arenas and trails woven into the landscape. The horse is the constant.

MorningEveningDuskLast light
07The origin

WhyAl-Andalus.

For centuries, from Córdoba, a civilisation made living into an art. One of its decisions still shapes ours.

Residents walking beside a jade-tiled water channel shaded by palms.
First the water, then the palace.

In the tenth century, Córdoba was the capital of Al-Andalus and one of the great cities of its time. Before Madinat al-Zahra rose to its west, Abd al-Rahman III brought water there from the Sierra Morena, restoring a Roman aqueduct.

At Safira

The landscape and its water are designed before the buildings: shade, sound and coolness as the architecture of wellbeing. Read the research note →

A heritageworth sharing.

For centuries, Al-Andalus was the house where ideas were guests. They arrived from Baghdad, from Byzantium, from a synagogue or a monastery. Here they found a table, conversation and someone to help them grow. And when they set out again, they travelled further.

That hospitality is why Safira exists. It also leads its founders to promote an institution devoted to how knowledge travels between cultures — independent of everything we build.

✦Córdoba

A forestof arches.

In Córdoba’s great mosque, double arches of stone and brick repeat in every direction. Light, rather than walls, gives the space its order.

Fig. — The arcade of CórdobaMove to carry the light

08The collection

One vision.Several countries.

An international collection of private garden cities, each shaped by its landscape and culture: one vision, expressed differently in every place.

What every Safira shares

One standard of architecture, privacy, security, craft, knowledge and hospitality.

What each place decides

The landscape, the climate, the materials, the authors, the sporting grounds and the cuisine.

Specific sites and project details will be shared as they are established.

09A first conversation

Let’s talk,in private.

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