For seven centuries the last Moorish kingdom in Iberia held a fragile coexistence of Muslims, Christians, and Jews. The buildings carry the proof.
For seven hundred years, Granada — the last Moorish kingdom in Iberia — was a city where Muslims, Christians, and Jews shared streets. The agreement was uneasy, frequently broken, and ended badly in 1492. But for stretches it worked, and the buildings that survive carry the proof: the Alhambra's Arabic calligraphy framing what's now a Catholic chapel; a synagogue that became a church that became a museum; the bathhouses in the Albayzín that ran on the same Roman engineering the Moors inherited from someone else who inherited it. Granada is what cosmopolitan looked like before it was a marketing word.
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