In AD 955, to defend his flourishing trade in silk and textiles, the blue-eyed Abd ar-Rahman III, the Caliph of Cordoba, built his magnificent fortress, the Alcazaba, transforming Almeria from a ...

The “badlands” of Spain proved an ideal body-double for America’s Wild West in such movies as For A Few Dollars More, which starred a young Mr Eastwood. Leone, though, had been beaten to ...