Travel Guide for Madrid

Madrid
Overview : According to Arab chroniclers, it was in AD 852 that the Emir of Córdoba, Mohamed I (AD 852-886), ordered a fortress to be built on the left bank of the Manzanares River, the geographical centre of the Iberian Peninsula. He named the settlement 'Mayrit' ('source of water') and in it laid the seeds of the city now known as Madrid. Traces of this flourishing Moorish town survive to this day, in a section of ...

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