Granada : the light of Andalucia
Nightingale, Steven2015
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Yearning for a change, Steven Nightingale took his family to live in the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. But as he journeyed through its hidden courtyards, scented gardens and sun-warmed plazas, Steven discovered that Granada's present cannot be separated from its past, and began an 8-year quest to discover more. Where once Christians, Muslims and Jews lived peacefully together and the arts and sciences flourished, Granada also witnessed brutality: places of worship razed to the ground, books burned, massacre and anarchy. In the 1600s the once-populous city was reduced to 6000 who lived among the rubble. In the next three centuries, the deterioration worsened, and the city became a rufuge for anarchists; then during the Spanish Civil War, fascism took hold.
Main title:
Granada : the light of Andalucia / Steven Nightingale.
Author:
Nightingale, Steven, author
Imprint:
London : Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2015.
Collation:
382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781857886313 (pbk)
Dewey class:
946.82946.82
LC class:
DP402.G6
Local class:
946.82
Language:
English
BRN:
1475788
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