Month: May 2013

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Al-Andalus coins made in Grenedine mints

In the context of the conference series “El milenio del Reino de Granada a debate” (The millenium of the Kingdom of Granada debated), academic Mª Jesús Viguera Molins from the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Complutense presented a collection of coins from Al Andalus made in Granada mints from the 11th […]

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What happened with the first Christian University in Granada?

The Curia Metropolitana in old town of Granada building, the headquarter for the first Christian university of Granada, is one of the stops on our tour of the historic centre and the Albayzin, the Granada Must-Do Tour, where we discover the transformation of the city of Granada, from Islam to Christianity. This unique building dates […]

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The unknown female sultan of the Alhambra

Behind the walls of Granada’s mysterious Alhambra a number of intriguing episodes occurred, and are being gradually unveiled thanks to new research. Some of these studies conclude that many of the women belonging to the Nasrid dynasty (from the 13th until the 15th century), remain neglected and forgotten, due to the masculine nature of medieval […]

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