Like scores of other towns in southeastern Spain, Elda marks the battles of the past with a very 21st century festival. The four-day pageant in Elda involves groups divided into Moors and ...

Southern Spain has a pretty distinct history in Europe: it was ruled by the North African Moors for over 500 years ... The post Skip Madrid and Barcelona and Head to Southern Spain For The ...

Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively the reign of Muslims in Spain, Europeans of African descent, and others for centuries. Derived from the Latin word “Maurus ...

Over the centuries, the Moors left a legacy in Spanish architecture, music, food and language in the region they then called al-Andalus. The name of Spain’s greatest hero, El Cid, comes from the ...