Some might find the Moorish interior faded but the manageress, Maria, is charm personified. |
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Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain. |
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Other standouts in the cast include Morgan Freeman as Robin's newfound Moorish friend Azeem. |
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The majority of the native Moorish communities, the Mudejares, chose to stay and be baptised. |
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Some of the interior scenes were set in the domed Moorish ballroom which is now a restaurant. |
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And it goes without saying the bathrooms were sublime, with Moorish influences also detected here. |
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Weirdly enough, Morris dancing arguably derives from Morisco or Moorish dancing. |
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Through this point of contact, Mozarabic art transmitted Moorish features to the European Romanesque. |
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The city was Moorish territory for many years and regained importance and economic standing with the discovery of the New World. |
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More precisely, Gaudi's work is Moorish, Medieval, and Futuristic, both lavishly ornate and elegantly simple. |
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At the restaurant there was a sort of romantic wishfulness that Spain's cooking should be more Moorish than it actually is. |
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Whether it will be retro, modern, futuristic or even Moorish is not clear, but it's a safe bet that it will be achingly stylish. |
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The ideology also increased the Moorish soldiers' desire to care for the civilian population of the new land. |
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Moorish details blended easily with elements of other European revival styles, including Venetian and Byzantine architecture. |
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches. |
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Phoenician, Roman and Moorish ruins were uncovered during the construction process, some of which are on permanent view in the new additions. |
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He spent some time in Spain, and showed an interest in Moorish music before returning to Germany. |
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Moorish archways and arabesque screens slip a lattice of shadows across the comings and goings in the lobby. |
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The kingdom of the Cantabrians was in part overturned by Moorish occupation. |
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Introducted to Spain by Moorish invaders, turron has been a long standing Christmas tradition. |
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He owns a palatial Moorish villa on Spain's ritzy Costa del Sol and a ski chalet in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. |
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The cavernous space pays homage to Moorish decor with its elaborately motifed terracotta plasterwork, ceramic tiling and large earthenware pots. |
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Palms, ancient olives, oleanders, plus white walls and a bunch of tall palm trees lend this 15 th-century masseria a Moorish air. |
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There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave. |
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish. |
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To this fusion are added Gothic style elements in the legs, colorful French ceramics with a Moorish flavor, and exotic serpents on either side of the ceramic cylinder. |
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Although it appears that Ransom made Moorish fretwork from 1885 to 1898, his furniture work was apparently limited and concentrated toward the end of his active period. |
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The Gothic palace is a stark monstrosity that is in striking contrast to the delicately chiselled and embellished Palacio Nazaries, the Moorish royal palace. |
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The remainder of the Moorish population has Sudanic African origins and is collectively known as Ḥarāṭīn. |
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Reflecting the Andalusians ' Moorish heritage, houses in the region have traditionally been designed with the goal of protecting residents from the heat of the sun. |
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The sun emblazoned the white houses skirting the Moorish castle, and Janet and I toyed with a crossword while enjoying an aperitif. |
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This means that there was a large Moorish population in Spain half a millennium after the high point of Andalusian culture in the eleventh century. |
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Genitor. Uniquely Spanish medieval light cavalry, much in the style of the Moorish horse the Spanish had been fighting for centuries. |
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Built next to the depot, the madrasa is the prototype of Tunisian madrasas with its paved courtyard surrounded by porticoes with Moorish arches. |
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The old upper city is surrounded by massive, turreted walls that are half Roman and half Moorish. |
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She lives in the cave of the Moorish spirit and has already brought about many miracles. |
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The villas of the Winter Town and the Moorish Park are a genuine delight for visitors. |
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These stories describe the Castilian hero defending the pilgrims from Moorish attacks. |
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However, this unfavorable vision of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar cannot be fully believed, since it came from Moorish historians of that time. |
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The original Moorish settlements developed on the northern slopes of the valley of Guadalquivir River. |
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Sumptuous design inspired by Moorish architectural traditions, a wide range of activities and refined services to make your stay unforgettable. |
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The castle finally fell in 1484 after a 15-day siege and more than 700 years of Moorish rule. |
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The whitewashed facade tinged with deep Moorish blues gives it its unique and inviting allure. |
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A combination of Arabic, Spanish, and Moorish ancestry, Palominos came to the United States when Queen Isabella sent a stallion to her viceroy in Mexico, named New Spain at that time. |
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The tin-glazed ware produced in Moorish Spain in the 12th to 16th centuries is known as Hispano-Moresque ware and inspired the production of majolica in Italy beginning in the 15th century. |
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During a stroll through the village the visitor will notice the Moorish layout of its streets, and will see beyond the white of its houses the different shades of green of the nearby forest. |
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The Anglo-Normans moved within a stick's throw of the walls and planned an initial attack on the large suburbs of the city, but the Moorish resistance is fierce. |
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Open 1pm – 3pm, 8pm – late, closed Mondays Where food is concerned, most of Granada's Moorish heritage is these days summed up by tea and shisha bars in the Albaicín district. |
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Due to the era in which the village was founded its urban structure is noticeably different from that of many mountain localities that have a Moorish heritage. |
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Such is the case with this lintel, which possesses a Moorish arch with the coats of arms of the Church and the Holy Inquisition: the crossed keys are crowned with an ecclesiastic biretta. |
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Spanish and Portuguese are similar enough to lead some scholars to assign their shared characteristics to the influence of an Iberian substratum and a Moorish superstratum. |
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For the first time, Foreign Legionnaires and Moorish troops from the Spanish colony of Morocco were deployed against the proletariat in Spain, troops that would later be used by Franco to crush the Spanish Revolution. |
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Its streets are narrow and perfectly adapted to the mountainous nature of the terrain, while its houses and architecture show clear evidence of Moorish influences. |
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The mosque in the Moorish quarter, to which it is supposed to have belonged, was dismantled in the early 16th century, in the reign of Dom Manuel I of Portugal. |
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Portugal's history has had a lasting impact on the culture of the country: Moorish and Oriental influences in architecture and the arts are prominent. |
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The uniform white of its houses is interrupted by splashes of colour from flowerpots, and any corner of the old quarter takes the visitor back to the Moorish epoch with no effort of the imagination being necessary. |
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Over the past 1,300 years or so, Gibraltar had been Moorish for 727 years, Spanish for 266 years, and a British possession and then colony for 301 years. |
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This course of action did not turn out badly for him since, with the Moorish population driven out, he was compensated with lands and even a lifetime pension. |
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The church's layout follows the pattern common to Moorish churches from the Granada school. It has but one nave, a very clearly defined main chapel and independent side chapels. |
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The whitewash, the bright colours of flowers in windows and balconies and a number of crude stairways form an urban complex with clear Moorish influences that are emphasised by the gable roofs of the houses. |
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The last Moorish kingdom fell in the same year Columbus reached the Americas. |
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Las Casas served in a Spanish militia against Moorish rebels in Grenada. |
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The seventeenth century Nuestra Señora del Rosario church stands out in the simple urban district, where traditional architecture predominates and unabashedly shows its Moorish heritage. |
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Drawings and photographs round out this exploration of Moorish Spain and Sharifian Morocco, from the studio to fantasies of the harem. |
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During the early Middle Ages it came under Germanic rule but later, much of it was conquered by Moorish invaders from North Africa. |
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Its three naves, supported by Moorish roof framing, are separated by thick Ionic order columns, which imbue the interior of the church with an unmistakable Roman air. |
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For in Spain, the sound of rolling waves and dance music combine with contemporary architecture and centuries-old Moorish buildings, siestas and modern business life to form a unique, vibrating blend. |
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The village exhibits an unmistakably Moorish urban layout: narrow streets-some excessively so-houses with dazzling white façades and gable roofs, and some slopes that make wheeled traffic impossible in certain places. |
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The architect, R. Thomas Short, worked in what might be called the Saracenic, with great turbanlike onion domes, patterned brickwork and lacy Moorish arabesques in terra cotta. |
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The melodies of Vala, a famous musician from Chinguetti who has become an emblematic figure of Mauritanian music, are still played on the tidinit, the Moorish lute. |
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You can also try the typical Moorish sweet pastries, the fried doughnuts or roscos from Pampaneira, the borrachillos, la torta de lata and the fried chocolate pastries. |
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The police box was equipped with a rotating blue light on its Moorish roof and a telephone for bobbies to call in the Depression-era equivalent of an airstrike: truncheon-wielding bovver boys on horseback. |
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The villa was founded at the beginning of the 1st century A. D. and remained in use during the Roman and Visigoth period until the 7th century A. D., when it was peacefully abandoned before the Moorish conquest. |
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Genalguacil, an archetypical mountain village, exhibits to the visitor an urban layout that is of Moorish origin and has survived to the present day with scarcely any changes. |
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Closely akin to the fandango, the jota is probably a fertility dance of Aragonese origin, although legend states that it was brought north from Andalusia by the exiled Moorish poet Aben Jot. |
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In 1018, Roger de Tosny travelled to the Iberian Peninsula to carve out a state for himself from Moorish lands, but failed. |
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Liverpool contains several synagogues, of which the Grade I listed Moorish Revival Princes Road Synagogue is architecturally the most notable. |
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Toward the end of the 9th century, Moorish pirate havens were established along the coast of southern France and northern Italy. |
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Another kind of pike called a morris, that is a Moorish pike, was much in fashion about the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. |
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In 1492 the joint rulers conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada, which had been providing Castile with African goods through tribute. |
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Henry was 21 when he and his father and brothers captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco. |
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The descendants of the Beni Hassan warriors became the upper stratum of Moorish society. |
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The cuisine of Morocco is mainly a fusion of Moorish, European and Mediterranean cuisines. |
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While Moorish rule began to recede, it would remain in parts of the Iberian peninsula for another 760 years. |
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After this defeat, Moorish attacks abated until Almanzor began his campaigns. |
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In spite of her hostility towards the Muslims in Andalusia, Isabella developed a taste for Moorish decor and style. |
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Architecture from the 16th to the 19th century includes colonial Spanish, Moorish, Neo gothic and Neoclassical. |
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In 1569, the Morisco Revolt broke out in the southern province of Granada in defiance of attempts to suppress Moorish customs. |
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Apparently his body was brought from Constantinople in the 4th century, and is entombed in the cathedral, a fascinating architectural fusion of Moorish and European styles. |
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We had been showered on since leaving the 10th-century Moorish mosque in Almonastar and sloshed over the hills till we arrived at a posada in Alájar several hours later. |
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It was not until the Moorish conquest of Spain in 711 cut off communications between the major Romance regions that the languages began to diverge seriously. |
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Norsemen, Flemish spearmen, Frankish knights, Moorish mounted archers, and Berber light cavalry were the main types of mercenaries available and used in the conflict. |
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Worthless trinkets, Moorish textiles, and above all, shells from the Canary and Cape Verde islands were exchanged for gold, slaves, ivory and Guinea pepper. |
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By the 12th century it had come to Europe either from the Byzantium or Moorish Spain where the mechanism was raised higher above the ground on a more substantial frame. |
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Princes Road is widely considered to be the most magnificent of Britain's Moorish Revival synagogues and one of the finest buildings in Liverpool. |
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As the tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day. |
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When the Moorish Almoravid ruler, Yusuf ibn Tashifin, finished the Alhambra Palace in Granada in the 14th century, it became one of the wonders of the world. |
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The walls surrounding the city were originally built during the rule of Julius Caesar, but their current course and design were the result of Moorish reconstructions. |
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Augustine with these hotels, giving it a skyline and beginning an architectural trend in the state characterized by the use of the Moorish Revival style. |
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Nafplion in the Gulf of Argolis was once the capital of Greece and is a delightful old town with Venetian buildings, a Moorish castle and plenty of candlelit restaurants. |
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The Tower of Homage of the Moorish Castle remains standing today. |
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In 1614 he sailed to Malabar and Goa to fight the Moorish pirates there. |
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These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England at the beginning of the 17th century. |
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