The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish. |
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Emperor angelfish, moorish idols, surgeonfish and sergeant-majors greeted us in the 20-25m visibility at almost every corner. |
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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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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches. |
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Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain. |
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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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Moorish archways and arabesque screens slip a lattice of shadows across the comings and goings in the lobby. |
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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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There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave. |
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Some might find the Moorish interior faded but the manageress, Maria, is charm personified. |
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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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Introducted to Spain by Moorish invaders, turron has been a long standing Christmas tradition. |
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And it goes without saying the bathrooms were sublime, with Moorish influences also detected here. |
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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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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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Moorish details blended easily with elements of other European revival styles, including Venetian and Byzantine architecture. |
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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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More precisely, Gaudi's work is Moorish, Medieval, and Futuristic, both lavishly ornate and elegantly simple. |
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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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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 majority of the native Moorish communities, the Mudejares, chose to stay and be baptised. |
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Other standouts in the cast include Morgan Freeman as Robin's newfound Moorish friend Azeem. |
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The kingdom of the Cantabrians was in part overturned by Moorish occupation. |
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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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Some of the interior scenes were set in the domed Moorish ballroom which is now a restaurant. |
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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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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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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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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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The castle finally fell in 1484 after a 15-day siege and more than 700 years of Moorish rule. |
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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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The whitewashed facade tinged with deep Moorish blues gives it its unique and inviting allure. |
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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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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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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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The last Moorish kingdom fell in the same year Columbus reached the Americas. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Tower of Homage of the Moorish Castle remains standing today. |
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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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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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In 1614 he sailed to Malabar and Goa to fight the Moorish pirates there. |
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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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