Ibn al Shaykh of Malaga

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

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...

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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 2

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

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

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...

El legado andalusí Foundaton and Club Mototurismo Deportivo Andaluz (Andalusian Sports Motorcycle Tourism Club) have signed a collaboration agreement to promote motorcycle journeys along the Routes of El legado andalusí

El legado andalusí Foundaton and Club Mototurismo Deportivo Andaluz (Andalusian Sports Motorcycle Tourism Club) have signed a collaboration agreement to promote motorcycle journeys along the Routes of El legado andalusí   The Routes of El legado andalusí wind...

Mina del Rey Moro

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

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...

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The alhóndigas of Granada

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 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

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

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 2

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

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

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...

Jerónimo Münzer-2

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...

The exhibition “Gardens: Heritage and Dreams” by the Andalusian Public Foundation El legado andalusí has been honoured as the first runner-up in the 3rd edition of the EXPONE Awards for Innovation in Museums and Exhibitions, organized by the AMMA Association.

The exhibition "Gardens: Heritage and Dreams" has received nearly 90,000 visitors since its opening on December 2022 until June 4th, 2023, at the Andalusian Public Foundation’s headquarters in the Corral del Carbón, Granada. Gardens. Heritage and dreams has had as a...

Hieronymus Münzer

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

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

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

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...

Judar Pasha

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

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...

Best Med Path

- European Projects -Project "BEST MED" PathProgram PANORAMED - INTERREG MED Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Implementation period: November 2019- June 2022​La Fundación El legado andalusí lidera el proyecto Best Med de...

Dialogue for Tourism

- European Projects - Project "Dialogue for Tourism"Programme Interreg Euro-Med Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Implementation period: January 2023 - September 2029El legado andalusí Andalusian Public Foundation is the lead partner...

Antequera

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,...

Napoleón

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

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...

The Walks of El legado andalusí

The Walks of El legado andalusí Granada - Cordoba - Seville - Almeria - AntequeraThe Walks through Granada, Cordoba, Seville, Almeria and Washington Irving’s Antequera... allow the visitor to explore the streets, squares and the most representative corners of these...

Malta’s Mediterranean sayings, a linguistic conundrum

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...

I-Heritage landing page

iHERITAGE: ICT Mediterranean platform for UNESCO cultural heritageHow lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! Ernest HemingwayUNESCO's Mediterranean cultural world heritage is calling for new techniques able to...