“For almost eight hundred years, the Iberian Peninsula was home to the Muslim civilisation known as al-Andalus. We owe it important contributions to our cultural heritage, understood in its broadest sense (monumental, artistic, linguistic, scientific). Al-Andalus became the hub of creation and liaison between East and West, as well as an important transmitter of knowledge from the ancient world to the Middle Ages.
Ler mais Temporary exhibition – “’Metal Arts in al-Andalus’” – National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)