Speaking of the Almoravids, the Moroccan dynasty who invaded the Iberian Peninsula in the late eleventh century in order to salvage the deteriorating military situation in Al-Andalus... Yesterday I visited the Campo de Moro, the formal gardens between the Manzanares River and the Palacio Real in Madrid.
The Campo de Moro is so-called because in 1109, when an Almoravid army besieged Madrid, they camped in this spot below the Alcázar, the old castle which stood on the site of the Royal Palace. The name stuck, even after the space was incorporated into the grounds of the Palace in the sixteenth century. I had never been there before, somehow. It is like a mini-El Retiro, but less crowded and with peacocks wandering around.
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