Fiesta de Moros y Cristianos

Yonks ago in the middle ages, when the Romans ran amok in England building bath-houses, glorifying Gladiators and murdering masses of people under the banner of ‘The Crusades’, Spain was itself undergoing a transformation of kinds.  At the bottom end of Spain lies the Mediterranean sea, and just across the pond, Morocco.  It was then occupied by the so-called Moors, a misnomer for a mixture of peoples from Berbers to Iberian Muslims to Arabs.

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