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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Looks like lots of Moorish-type architecture.


140 posted on 05/28/2017 3:24:07 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
Looks like lots of Moorish-type architecture.

If you look at the picture in post 117 those 3 rocks used to be the entrance to the harbor. At the base of the rocks is a statue marking where on 15 August 755 Omeya Abd ar-Rahman I came ashore to establish a Moorish kingdom. On top of the rocks is a cross commemorating the surrender of the Arabs in Almunecar and the beginning of Christian rule in 1489. We can see the cross and the castle which guarded the harbor from our house. The cross is lit up at night, very pretty.

147 posted on 05/29/2017 4:38:49 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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