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发表于 2017-12-21 21:23
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as you drive around the landscape of the southern Spain, it's full of the sense
of Moorish past, there are these little castles everywhere, surrounded by tiny
little white villages, but I think it was the landscape that altered the most
of all, because whereas for the Romans, Spain had just been the arse-end of
empire, dry and barren place, to these people from the desert, this was a
land full of the agricultural possiblity, and they brought with them a whole
range of techniques for farming in dry land, system with irrigation canal, they
planted out olives and vineyards, and as a result, there was a huge population
exploration, suddenly, people had more thant enough to eat, and more than
enough water to drink, Spain really had never had it so good, and in the
countryside outside Cordoba, the greatest symbol of islamic power and the
influence in Spain rose out the ground.
these ruins are all that's left the most splendid palace ever built by the Moors,
Madinat al-Zahra, it was built in the 10th century, to celebrate the might of
Abd-al-Rahman III, the descendant of the great exile who founded the golden
age, in the year 929, Al-Rahman proclaimed himself not only the Caliph of Alandalus,
but ruler of the entire islamic empire, to celebrate this audacious act of
self promotion, he built this vast palace complex, the size of a city, it was
to become a Versailles of Spain, the epotime of the islamic palace.
Wow, in this fantastic impressive, but just think how much more impressive
it mush have been when this palace is in his heyday, and golden and silver
maginificant textiles decorated every surfaces, apparently, one room even
contained a vast suspended vat, full of mercury, at the Caliph's command,
a servant would bang it, and the mercury would ripple, and light would dance
and sparkle on every surface, it must have been a bit like something medieval
islamic glitter ball, and guests would reel backward in awe and terror |
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