It’s sunset, and I’m at the place to be in Granada: the breathtaking San Nicolas viewpoint overlooking the fortress of the Alhambra. Here, at the edge of the city’s exotic Moorish… ...

Spain still uneasy with the Moors. ... Sanchez-Albornoz saw the Moorish invasion of 711 as a national disaster and Muslim-Christian relations as generally antagonistic. ...

At the foot of the shrine in Covadonga located in Asturias province Spain, more than 1,700 young Catholics from 28 countries ...

Party with controversy: Spain’s festival of Moors and Christians. Some see the annual festival marking the reconquest of Iberia from Arab rulers as racist and disrespectful.

For centuries, Spanish towns used to hold annual festivals celebrating the Christina re-conquest, when Islamic rulers were driven out during the Middle Ages. The festivals included the burning of ...

Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted ...

There is a way through Spain that is all horseshoe arches, keyhole windows and bronze doors carved in Arabic script. It meanders into crenelated forts, Moorish castles overlooking the Mediterranean… ...

The Great Mosque of Cordoba was built after the Moorish invasion of Spain in the 8th century. Cordoba is known as the City of Three Cultures because Muslims, Jews and Christians lived there in ...

From roughly 711 to 1492, the Moors, or North African Muslims, controlled parts — sometimes large parts — of Spain. The mosques and fortresses that remain are some of the country's most ...