These winding pathways whisper tales of Islamic influence that go ... spanned much of the Iberian Peninsula. The city is bordered to the north by Spain’s Sierra Morena mountain range, which ...

It’s an unfortunate reality for Spain and the Islamic World that the late dictator ... most of the main cathedrals of each city in Andalucia, such as that of Sevilla or Cordoba, were at one ...

Spain: In the country’s churches and streets ... to what was by then a Muslim city?” Abad had told me about her doctoral thesis, which addressed the ways in which the architecture of La ...

Madrid, Spain – A crucial part of Madrid’s Islamic ... He found himself facing the paradox that he was going to put the capital in a Muslim city. And that’s how the whole process of ...

This hilltop palace city is the result of several stages ... is one of the best-preserved examples of Muslim architecture in ...

The Spanish Reconquista of Islamic Andalusia was advancing ... and a Christian basilica was built there. (This ancient city of sultans in Spain is a 21st-century wonder.) People kneel in prayer ...

A rare sword nicknamed ''Excalibur'' from the Spanish city of Valencia is 1,000 years old, meaning it was last wielded when much of Spain was controlled by Muslim rulers, new research reveals.