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An Andalusian Journey over the Ages Ibrahim Al-Mulaifi

Visitors to Andalusia are usually attracted by specific ancient sites: the huge Cordova Mosque, impressive Alhambra palaces, the Grand Mosque minaret in Seville, and do not care to visit other places which are not less important. They forget that Portugal, like Spain, houses many Arab-Islamic Andalusian antiquities. This fact was behind the idea of being unconventional in dealing with the history of Andalusia through exploring new places and going on a journey from Gibraltar in Spain’s farthest south to the north of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, or Andalusia’s western region, as it was called, visiting the main cities and towns on our way, in a single account of two countries