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Granada After 1492: Articles on the Castilian Conquest and the Moriscos (Page 3)

The last Muslim kingdom falls in 1492 and Siloé raises Spain's first Renaissance cathedral.

Zambra cave flamenco performance in Sacromonte Granada, dancer in white dress mid-step inside a whitewashed limestone cave with low vaulted ceiling and warm lantern light

Zambra Cave Flamenco: Sacromonte's Living Ritual

James Walker Updated

Zambra is Granada's flamenco form, born in Sacromonte's limestone caves from a Moorish-Romani fusion. Three acts, 500 years of history, still performed nightly.

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The Torre de la Vela of the Alhambra's Alcazaba at dusk, Granada, the tower where Ferdinand's standard was raised on 2 January 1492, marking the end of the Reconquista

The Reconquista and the Fall of Granada in 1492

James Walker Updated

On 2 January 1492, Granada surrendered, ending 781 years of Moorish rule. The Reconquista, the siege of 1491, and the Granada Capitulations explained.

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Interior of the Alhambra's Nasrid Palaces, Granada — ornate muqarnas ceiling and horseshoe arches, the palace handed over by Boabdil, last Moorish king, in 1492

Boabdil: Last Moorish King of Granada

James Walker Updated

Boabdil (c.1460–1533) was Granada's last Nasrid sultan, who surrendered the city to Ferdinand and Isabella on 2 January 1492, ending 781 years of Moorish rule.

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Stone pomegranate carvings above the Puerta de las Granadas arch in Granada, the granada pomegranate symbol against carved Renaissance stonework

Granada's pomegranate symbol: from conquest to convergence

James Walker Updated

A pomegranate sits on Spain's royal coat of arms — Ferdinand and Isabella's 1492 Granada conquest trophy, once revered by Nasrid rulers as paradise's fruit.

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