Al-Andalus

Qarmūna قرمونة

Today: Carmona, Spain

Years
713–1247

A strongly walled town on the road from Córdoba to Seville, Qarmūna was a taifa capital in the 11th century and later a key Almohad stronghold. Fernando III took it in 1247; its gates and Alcázar keep their Andalusi bones.

What to see today

Day drives

Get directions

by Phantazein

We count visits ourselves, with no cookies and nothing stored on your device. To count people rather than clicks, we keep a one-way code derived from your connection and browser for at most 48 hours and then delete it; what remains is totals per page that identify no one. We never store your IP. We also use Plausible, analytics hosted in the European Union that likewise sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, to learn which sites send readers here and how many searches are run, never what is searched for.