Alhambra

Between 711 and 1492, a lot of the Iber­ian Penin­su­la, includ­ing mod­ern-day Spain, was beneath Mus­lim rule. Not that it was simple to carry on to the place for that size of time: after the autumn of Tole­do in 1085, Al-Andalus, because the ter­ri­to­ry was referred to as, con­tin­ued to lose cities over the sub­se­quent…