Author: Adam Mallon

More arches.  This mosque was another of the visuals I was most looking forward to seeing when we were planning the trip.

A burial site within the mosque-cathedral

Fisheye of the arches.

The site of the mosque-cathedral has been an important religious site for centuries, with the Visigoths originally having a cathedral on this spot, which was replaced by a Moorish mosque, and then converted to a Cathedral after the Reconquista

The ruins of Medina Azahara – once a bustling Moorish city near Cordoba.  Berbers sacked the city in the 12th century and it was never rebuilt, and only rediscovered by archaelogists in 1910.

The yawning chasm that separates the two halves of Ronda.

This town is the site of a fictional massacre in For Whom the Bell Tolls, although the atrocity is loosely based on others that are believed to have taken place.

The gorge beneath Ronda is over 300 metres deep

One last look at Ronda

The Port of Malaga from the Malaga Alcazar

I first learned of the Alhambra watching a travel show when I was in my teens and ever since I’d wanted to visit the site.  It did not disappoint.