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Hi,in my efforts to enlight you in the beauty of Granada, some of the History of my country is due to be told.
And I will focus inthe perid of time which possible define Granada more than any in the Histry of Spain: the Muslim Domination. Such perid lasted from 711 AC until 1492 AC and, in my opinion of NON historian ;-), the best part of all the history of Granada and Spain.
In 711 Táriq ibn Ziyad crossed the strech and landed in Gibraltar with the idea of supporting a cristian nobleman to fight by his side. But once they landed, they set fire to their ships and never went back. That was the beggining of the muslim domination which reintroduced in Europe long time lost knowledge like Maths, ancient greek literature, astronomy and many more sciencies which banished after the collapse of the Roman Empire. At the beggining of that period of time, Al Andalus (the name given to the part of Spain which was muslim) was part of the Caliphate of Damascus but soon it became independent, starting the splendor of their civization.
And Granada was an important part of it. As proof of it, the most beautiful building in this part of Europe: The Alhambra palace.
In arabic, Alhambra means "Red Castle" or "Castle with red walls" and the first reference in records to it was in the IX century. But it is the king Mohamed ben Al-Hamar (Mohamed I, 1238-1273) (who was the first of the Nazari dinasty) who decided to convert such palace in his residence starting an epoch of splendor which lasted until the Catholics Kings conquest Granada
