711–1492

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was never just one place. It was many worlds at once.

From the great cities of Qurṭuba, Išbīliya and Ġarnāṭa to Mālaqa, al-Mariyya, Ŷayyān, Walba and Qādis, the south of the Iberian Peninsula became, for centuries, one of the most complex cultural landscapes of the medieval Mediterranean.

Mosques, palaces, baths, markets, fortresses, ports and gardens shaped everyday life. Some cities became centres of power and knowledge. Others connected the peninsula with North Africa and the wider Islamic world through trade, migration and war.

A world that disappeared politically centuries ago, but whose traces still remain in the cities, landscapes and buildings of southern Spain.

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by Phantazein

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