This culminated in 1492, when Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I won the Granada War and completed Spain’s conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Eventually, the Moors were expelled from ...

The Moors & Christians Festival happened during The National Day of Valencia. I witnessed festive events, which included an historical re-enactment and a street parade. The National Day of the ...

More than a millennium has passed since Spain’s Andalusia region led the world in scholarship and art under the Moors, the North African and Arab Muslims who took control in 711. Their reign ...

A Portuguese priest brought the tradition to Brazil in the 1800s to celebrate the Holy Spirit and to commemorate the victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres ...

By day, she works in an import-export business, but tonight she is dressed up for the fiesta of the Moros y Cristianos, Spanish for Moors and Christians, which celebrates the reconquest of Iberia ...

Brazil's Cavalhadas festival celebrates victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis are taking to the streets in a procession of the ...

PIRENOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis took to the streets on Sunday in a procession of the traditional Cavalhadas festival. The tradition began in the ...

Brazil’s Cavalhadas festival celebrates victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors. By The Associated Press. Published May 19, 2024 2:01 pm ...

PIRENOPOLIS, Brazil — People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis took to the streets on Sunday in a procession of the traditional Cavalhadas festival. The tradition began… ...

PIRENOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis took to the streets on Sunday in a procession of the traditional Cavalhadas festival.

People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis took to the streets on Sunday in a procession of the traditional Cavalhadas festival. The tradition began in the 1800s with a Portuguese priest ...