Be sure to get your Alhambra tickets a couple of months in advance. There is only one source for tickets and they can't be resold. This spring we started looking a month before and had a tough time getting two tickets...
Just found "The Alhambra" by Robert Irwin in my local used book store this morning. Very detailed description of the Alhambra and its history, with lots of Muslims in Spain history. I plan to walk from Granada to Cordova next spring with my...
I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend “The Ornament of the World” by Maria Rosa Menocal. The subtitle is “How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain.” The book covers broad politics of the era, but the...
A Vanished World by Chris Lowney
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving (1857 edition)
A Brief History of Spain by Jeremy Black
Granada, A Pomegranate in the Hand of God by Steven Nightingale
Buen Camino
Hi Philtration and fellow Coug. It's an older book and probably only found deep in the bowels of Holland Library but, The History of Spain, by Louis Bertrand and Sir Charles Petrie, treats Musulman Spain in great detail. I agree with Tincatinker...
I know "Ornament of the World" that is in Amazon. Al Andalus was very important also for Jewish culture before the almoravide and almohade invasions with studious of Tora and Talmud like Maimonides, Jehuda Halevi and Ben Ezra very important...
You would have to try really hard to find a Spanish history book which doesn’t address these subjects.
I’ve just finished Giles Tremlett’s Brief History of Spain (in Spanish) and it’s well described - and surprisingly different to the...
Did part of the Norte this June and hiked from Santoña to Güemes on a Sunday. We had heard some stories of running out of food on Sundays so loaded up at a grocery store on Saturday. We ended up donating all the (less appetizing) food we had...
What would a taxi in your part of the world charge for a 400 km trip? That would be at least an 8 hour day for the driver, plus fuel and car maintenance. I would also find €390 - €500 to be too steep for my budget, except in an emergency, but I...
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