ITINERARY

Al-Andalus, Sepharad, Hispania

• Madrid, the Berber village that would become the center of a world empire.
• Toledo: Arab marzipan, Jewish synagogue, Renaissance palaces.
• Córdoba: Define me a mosque: a forest of ten thousand columns.
• Seville: The biggest Gothic cathedral has a Muslim bell tower. 42 miles of documents: the Spanish American Empire in an archive.

• Madrid, the Berber village that would become the center of a world empire.
• Toledo: Arab marzipan, Jewish synagogue, Renaissance palaces.
• Córdoba: Define me a mosque: a forest of ten thousand columns.
• Seville: The biggest Gothic cathedral has a Muslim bell tower. 42 miles of documents: the Spanish American Empire in an archive.
• Granada: Jewish prime ministers, palaces of water, Christian erotic poetry, the murder of a gay poet.
• Gibraltar: the last monkeys of Europe live in a Moorish castle.
• Ceuta's medieval walls: Rich Europe's barrier against the masses of the poor who know how to read.
• Fez: following the path of Maimonides in an old university
• Meknes: the old Medina, the prison, the stables, the university. A Roman town called Volubilis.
• Marrakesh: Xemáa el Fná. Walking the streets as a form of art.
• Rabat: A royal palace, the shrine of a holy man.Tradition and Islamic womens rights
• Tangiers: Communities in transition.

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