After the Christian reconquest of Zafra in mid-13th century, the Morisco builders (Muslim masons who remained in the village after the Christian occupation) preserved their aesthetics in architecture - the Mudejar art - even if they had to work then at the service of the victors. The Mudejar forms (visible in the use of lime and brick, or in certain building elements such as Alfiz or interlaced arches, wooden roofs etc.) were so popular, that the people of Zafra continued to use them for centuries. These elements can still be seen on Plaza Chica, where the brick arches of the portals framed by Alfiz, emphasize the white facades of the nearby houses: most notably one house that features a Gothic-Mudejar ornamentation of intertwined blind arches.