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Inland you’ll find Roman and Moorish monuments, numerous fruit orchards, and the scenic wooded hillsides of the serras that separate the Algarve from the Alentejo.
A port for Granada in Moorish times, Almuñécar continued to enjoy a certain prestige after the Reconquest when Juan de Herrera, the architect of El Escorial, Philip II’s grand monastery cum palace near Madrid, was commissioned to design the parish church.
There is plenty else of interest here, including a Moorish castle dating from the 10th and 11th centuries, a late 16th-century cathedral, and many important palaces, houses, and churches.
Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alcázar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.
Built by a German Baron for his Portuguese queen in 1840, up close it turns out to be an eclectic, whimsical mix of architectural styles (Gothic, Manueline, Renaissance, and Moorish).
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