Even if breakfast comes before dawn, it’s still the most important meal of your day. Drink two glasses of water at every suhoor and follow these tips.
If you are a muslim traveller or an islamic architecture lover those are the 7 things you must see in Granada
One of the great cuisines of the world, Moroccan cooking abounds with subtle spices and intriguing flavour combinations.
Cordoba قرطبة in the Andalucia province of southern Spain is a city with more than 2,500 years of developed history.
Located just a few hours by bus from Tangier and far enough off the beaten track to dissuade many tourists, Chefchaouen is quiet enough for those visitors overwhelmed by the busy medinas of Fez and Marrakech, and has just enough of what is quintessentially Moroccan to be of interest to other travelers looking for something a bit more authentic.
The most mystical of Morocco's imperial cities, Fez. Capital and spiritual center of Morocco, this city is situated in a narrow valley against the backdrop of the Middle Atlas
The region of mountain villages known
as Las Alpujarras clings to the southern flanks of the Sierra Nevada,
cloven by deep, sheltered valleys and gorges which run down towards the
Mediterranean.
Constant pressure from the Christians led to a bloody uprising, the
Morisco Rebellion of 1568, which was ruthlessly crushed out, with the
public execution of the leader, Ben Humeya, in the main square of
Granada. Soon followed a royal decree expelling from the Kingdom of
Granada all people of moorish descent, since the "new Christians", as
the converts were called, were all suspected of being ¨crypto-Muslims¨
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| An street in Órgiva (Las Alpujarras, Granada) |
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| Acequia de Las Ventanas |
However,
on the night of 19th July 1843, a fire started in a shop that made
matches, and the entire bazaar was destroyed. The area was soon
re-built, but on a smaller scale.
Madrid grew around the Manzanares River, which was called Mayrit by early Muslim settlers meaning 'source of water'.
Argan
oil is beautiful golden oil with a slightly reddish tinge, which comes
from the Argan Tree of Morocco.