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The History of Andalucía

A long story told in chapters. Each era is a series of linked guides covering people, places and the legacy you can still see today.

  1. 1. Phoenicians & Tartessians

    c. 1100–500 BC

    The first cities of the western Mediterranean.

  2. 2. Iberians

    c. 600–200 BC

    Pre-Roman cultures of the south.

  3. 3. Roman Hispania Baetica

    218 BC – AD 409

    Itálica, Baelo Claudia and the olive economy.

  4. 4. Al-Andalus

    711–1492

    Eight centuries of Moorish rule — the Caliphate of Córdoba and the Nasrid emirate.

  5. 5. The Reconquista

    1085–1492

    The Christian conquest of southern Iberia.

  6. 6. The Spanish Inquisition

    1478–1834

    Auto-da-fé, expulsions and the long shadow.

  7. 7. The Spanish Civil War

    1936–1939

    Andalucía in the conflict and its long memory.

  8. 8. Industrial Heritage

    19th–20th c.

    Mines, railways and the British in Río Tinto.