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Home > Travel Spain > Spain Attractions > Albaicin: The Most Remarkable Monument of Granada
Albaicin: The Most Remarkable Monument of Granada
Even though the Alhambra gives Granada its reputation, it is distant from being the most antique memorial of the city. It was established on the mount on the opposite, western part of the valley. After being used by the Romans and the Iberians as a fortification, it was selected by the Zirid Dynasty as the heart of their "taifa" or feifdom in the eleventh century. They, then, gave way to the Almoravids, a new North African clan, which were relocated by the Almohads.
By the thirteenth century, the Christian capture the northern Andalucia and troop the soldiers of the Nasrid Empire into the south of Granada, where they apprehended the authority and soon created a larger new palace on the eastern part of the canal: the Alhambra. The elderly Zirid fortification was gradually abandoned, leaving only the doors and debris of walls which are today in the middle of the Albaicin's honeycomb of roads.
El Albaicin is a net of isolated alleyways, plazas, mosques reconstructed as churches and horseshoe-shaped doors. This is the antique Moorish medina that a seventeenth century writer illustrated as "a heaven congested to many".
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