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Beginnings
a brief history of a first-rate place
The palaces of memory
The mosque and the palm tree; Cordoba 786
Mother tongues: Cordoba, 855
A grand vizier, a grand city: Cordoba, 949
The gardens of memory: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba and Granada, 1041
Love and its songs: Neibla, just west of Seville, on the road to Huelva, August 1064; Barbastro, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, on the road to Saragossa, August 1064
The church at the top of the hill: Toledo, 1085
An Andalusian in London: Huesca, 1106
Sailing away, riding away: Alexandria, 1140
The abbot and the Quran: Cluny, 1142
Gifts: Sicily, 1236: Cordoba, 1236; Granada, 1236
Banned in Paris: Paris, 1277
Visions of other worlds: Avila, 1305
Foreign dignitaries at the courts of Castile: Seville, 1364; Toledo, 1364
In the Alhambra: Granada, 1492
Somewhere in La Mancha: 1605
Epilogue: Andalusian shards
A reading group guide.
a brief history of a first-rate place
The palaces of memory
The mosque and the palm tree; Cordoba 786
Mother tongues: Cordoba, 855
A grand vizier, a grand city: Cordoba, 949
The gardens of memory: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba and Granada, 1041
Love and its songs: Neibla, just west of Seville, on the road to Huelva, August 1064; Barbastro, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, on the road to Saragossa, August 1064
The church at the top of the hill: Toledo, 1085
An Andalusian in London: Huesca, 1106
Sailing away, riding away: Alexandria, 1140
The abbot and the Quran: Cluny, 1142
Gifts: Sicily, 1236: Cordoba, 1236; Granada, 1236
Banned in Paris: Paris, 1277
Visions of other worlds: Avila, 1305
Foreign dignitaries at the courts of Castile: Seville, 1364; Toledo, 1364
In the Alhambra: Granada, 1492
Somewhere in La Mancha: 1605
Epilogue: Andalusian shards
A reading group guide.