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Article: If you only have a day in Granada, Spain: then you must visit the Moorish citadel of Alhambra.
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- July 1, 2002
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A Muslim poet described it as a great ruby set in a crowning hill overlooking Granada in southern Spain, and today the Alhambra still sits, like an acropolis, dominating the city below on the fringe of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Moorish palace complex--with its gardens, fortifications, and royal buildings--is one of Europe's most popular tourist attractions, drawing eight million visitors a year. Yet modern scholars believe it was probably built more for appearances than for longevity, the last bastion of Islamic conquerors who ruled and influenced Spain for 750 years.
The story of Islamic dominance in Spain began in 711, when Moors from Tangier invaded ...
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