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.
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The yawning chasm that separates the two halves of Ronda.
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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.
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The gorge beneath Ronda is over 300 metres deep
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One last look at Ronda
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The Port of Malaga from the Malaga Alcazar
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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.
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Windows in Alhambra
This sprawling palace complex was built between the 13th and 16th Centuries, first by the Moorish kings of Al-Andalus, and then by the Christian monarchs, beginning with Ferdinand & Isabella who took the site as their royal home following the completion of the Conquista
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Alhambra in bloom
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