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Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.32 viewsIt was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Moorish emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls. Alhambra endures as an atypical example of Muslim art in its final European stages.
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We visited the Mezquita (Great Mosque)—the third-largest mosque in the world. 32 viewsThe Mezquita was built during the tenth century, while Cordoba was in its glory as the capital of the Moorish kingdom of El-Andalus, one of the wealthiest and most powerful cities in Europe, and an important center for science, education, and the arts. In AD 929, the Cordoba region broke away from the Islamic center, Baghdad, and formed its own independent kingdom, falling into anarchy shortly afterward. (continued in the next picture).
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