Ibn al Shaykh of Malaga dazzled by the Lighthouse of Alexandria PART I   By María Jesús Viguera Molins. Arabist. Member of the Royal Academy of History. The Lighthouse of Alexandría, the Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World, was widely described by Arab authors....

Leo Africanus, caravan was his homeland and his life the most unexpected crossing.< MORE ARTICLESBy Ana M. Carreño Leyva.   “Leo Africanus may have been for al-Andalus a kind of a posthumous son. Born at the moment his mother civilization was fading, he...

Presentación de la última novela de Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarredo 15 de noviembre de 2023 - 19:00 h. Salón de Plenos del Ayuntamiento de Granada AFORO LIMITADO Si desea acudir puede solicitarlo enviando un mail a eventos.legado@juntadeandalucia.es indicando su nombre y...

Al Ghazal, from Byzantium to the Viking country Part II By Jesús Cano. Arabist < MORE ARTICLESBy the mid-9th century travelling across the Mediterranean could be very dangerous, especially for an old man like al-Ghazal, who had earned a position in the Cordoban...

Al Ghazal, from Byzantium to the Viking country Part IBy Jesús Cano. Arabist < MORE ARTICLESBy the mid-9th century travelling across the Mediterranean could be very dangerous, especially for an old man like al-Ghazal, who had earned a position in the Cordoban court...

Ibn Battuta, the traveler of Islam < MORE ARTICLESOur traveller journeyed along North Africa, the Middle East and East and Central Africa. After this first set of journeys, he returned to the holy city of Islam, where he lived for three years, to later depart to...

The mystery of the Moor King’s Water Mine of Ronda < MORE ARTICLESBy Ana M. Carreño Leyva El legado andalusí Andalusian Public Foundation   The defence of Ronda meant, as in every border-city, one of the most important challenges both in times of peace and...

Ali Mandri, from Granada to the White Dove. The emigration of a free man. < MORE ARTICLES By Rodolfo Gil-Grimau Benumeya.   “Tetouan is the city on the edge of the winds, for it sits in a valley where gusts come and go while the sun and the clouds deliver hazy...

The alhóndigas of Granada​  < MORE ARTICLESBy Ana M. Carreño Leyva El legado andalusí Andalusian Public Foundation   All that remains of the intense commercial activity that took place in Granada in Nasrid times is the Yadida alhóndiga. Known as the...

The story of the Arma, the Andalusi diaspora in sub-Saharan Africa   By Fernando Ballano Gonzalo.< MORE ARTICLESBefore the Alpujarras rebellion took place in 1568, which was repressed by German soldiers commanded by Don Juan de Austria − stepbrother of Philip...

Jaén, for whoever looks for it​     By Antonio Zoido< MORE ARTICLESWe are travelling along the Route of the Nasrids. We reach Jaén as December is starting; we were getting there, although it appeared we are not, because while passing by the gorge that...

The discovery of Granada by the French Romantics  < MORE ARTICLESBy Youenn Rault Travelling by the first French to visit Spain was for a military purpose: the Napoleonic Wars. Yet, they found an arsenal of poetic inspiration that was to nurture the spirit of...

Ignacio de las Casas, a morisco wise Jesuit a peacemaker between two worlds PART II < MORE ARTICLESBy César de Requesens Moll.   The upheavals that Granadan society experienced in the 16th century, after the uncanny finding of the so-called Sacromonte Leaden...

Ignacio de las Casas, a morisco wise Jesuit a peacemaker between two worlds PART I< MORE ARTICLESBy César de Requesens Moll.   The upheavals that Granadan society experienced in the 16th century, after the uncanny finding of the so-called Sacromonte Leaden...

Montefrío, the horizon as a limit< MORE ARTICLES“I said: How about Íllora and Montefrío? He answered: A village leant [on the other one] side by side, like colleagues who get on well. It is a source of excellent wheat, and a rich hunting ground. Both villages...

Münzer, a journey through Spain in the sixteenth century PART II< MORE ARTICLESIn the year 1495, just three years after the Catholic Monarchs had conquered Granada, a German traveller, Doctor Hieronymus Münzer visited Granada. He left us an important chronicle...

Münzer, a journey through Spain in the sixteenth century PART I< MORE ARTICLESIn the year 1495, just three years after the Catholic Monarchs had conquered Granada, a German traveller, Doctor Hieronymus Münzer visited Granada. He left us an important chronicle about...

Al-Idrisi and The book of Roger< MORE ARTICLESNorman King Roger II was aware of the many contributions made by Arab in the field of science in al-Andalus, thus he decided to call the famed Andalusí geographer al-Idrisi to the court of Sicily to put him in charge of...

Valle del Zalabí. A primitive landscape< MORE ARTICLESThere are places whose landscape speaks volumes. In the north of the province of Granada, scarcely two kilometres from Guadix, the Valle del Zalabí (Valley of Zalabí) unfolds in a singular historic scene that...

From the al-Andalus that still survives< MORE ARTICLES  “By the middle of the last century (referring to the 19th century), a German historian pondered the fascination that in its time was produced by the mere mention of Granada, remarking that even those who had...

The african deed of Judar Pasha < MORE ARTICLESThere are some discoveries we search for and others that are found by chance, such as mine with Judar Pasha, a conqueror of a standing equal to Cortés and Pizarro and of a similar era, although inconsequential given...

Walks in Washington Irving’s Antequera  Dear brother, It is three days since I have arrived here (Granada) after a delicious trip from Seville to Granada, accompanied by the prince Dulgorouki. We spent five days travelling through Osuna, Antequera, Archidona and...

Antequera: art, history and culture< MORE ARTICLESBetween the Torcal Mountains and a vast fertile plain, along the Route of Washington Irving, lies the millennial city of Antequera. Cradle of illustrious characters, forerunner of the Renaissance in southern Spain,...

Napoleon’s encyclopedia, the richest museum in the world< MORE ARTICLES“Paris has the weight of a lead cloak to me! Your Europe is a molehill! Only in the East, where six hundred million of souls live, can be found great empires and to undertaking great...

Marchena, an inheritance with no waste< MORE ARTICLESPascual Madoz, in his Diccionario geográfico-estadístico de España y sus posesiones de ultramar (Geographic-statistical dictionary of Spain and its possessions oversea) from the mid-nineteenth century, provided...

Malta’s Mediterranean sayings, a linguistic conundrum< MORE ARTICLESIn the most frequently travelled islands in the Mediterranean, as is Malta, language picks up the echo of every tongue that has been heard in its lands. And from that linguistic alchemy, adages...