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Article: 800 years in Andalucia.
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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With names like Ford cars, the cities built in southern Spain over nearly 800 years of Moorish rule are not just sleepy, sundrenched repositories of the finest examples of Moorish architecture west of Istanbul. Granada, Seville and Cordoba are lively, dynamic places too, the scene of massive industrial expansion. Yet in this region which draws so many visitors to relics of the past, what is the real, living heritage bequeathed by incredibly -- almost eight centuries of Arab interaction in Andalucia?
The mosque with the third largest floor area in all of Islam, at Cordoba, may no longer echo to that inimitable elegiac call of the Muezzin, but the legacy of that ...