Christopher Oram's set is a splendid Moorish Seville palace, but his costumes are vintage flower power.
The decor in the hotel's rooms captures different eras of Spain's past with Andalusian, Castilian and Moorish elements.
Artistic director and hotel design guru Jacques Garcia decorated the 56 rooms and suites with Moorish tiles, stuffed furniture and stylish fabrics.
They transferred the original living-room ceiling cypress stenciled with Moorish stars to cover a loggia and decorated an exterior wall with a set of weathered brass gates.
Inspired by both Mughal and Moorish mosque architecture and paved with floral marble from - count them - 28 different countries, the mosque has a trifecta of superlatives.
Looking a little like a Marrakesh riad transplanted to Austria, Arte Vida has a lantern-lit communal salon and a Moorish garden replete with tent and shisha pipes.
And the Moorish Ummayad dynasty in Spain, made the city of Cordoba its capital, and installed an immense mosque on the site of an ancient Christian church there.
There are guided tours available of his sumptuous, Moorish-style house that overlooks the Hudson River, and there is a network of trails and pathways to explore the 250-acre estate.
Lawrence's World War I exploits, starring Peter O'Toole, were filmed at this 1929 Moorish style Seville property. 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the film, which was released in a digitally remastered version.
The show was an eloquent statement about the need for an introverted country to acknowledge its Moorish past and build (or rebuild) bridges to the Maghreb as well as the New World and Europe.
But with its creamy tiles and Moorish mosaics, it is still a great place to sit and watch the world - and the trams - go by, though the prices are no longer revolutionary.
Near the medina and the Menara gardens, the hotel is set in 40 walled acres of Moorish gardens and every one of the 139 rooms and suites has a balcony that overlooks them.
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Locals claim that the territory of Asturias is the one and only true Spain, since it was the only part of the country that resisted Moorish occupation after the Islamic conquest of the eighth century.
Part coming-of-age story and part adventure, Kerbouchard travels from Brittany to Moorish Spain to Central Europe to the Russian Steppes to the Byzantine Empire, and features more than a few exciting action scenes and battles.
La Pedrera, run straight as arrows, pointing to the heart of the Cuitat Vella (Old Town) and the narrow, tangled streets of the Barri Gotic (Gothic Quarter), which hides dusty plazas and Moorish eight-pointed fountains.
In an interview with Omni in 1991, he described the allure of programs that would let you feel as if you were wandering at will inside a Moorish temple or through the chambers of a beating heart.
One maalem (or master craftsman), in particular, opened many doors for the decorator: Ma'alem Houman, who was skilled in the brickwork and tadelakt (a glazed plaster mixed with pigment and soap) that Willis brought out of the hammam (or bathhouse) and into Moorish interiors.
The success of The Heretic in Spain may have less to do with Salcedo's character than it does with its recreation of the vanished Protestant milieu of the period, which was quickly suppressed and is harder to find than Spain's Moorish and Jewish past.
The older parts include Hassan Mosque (started in 1184) and the Almohad ramparts and gates, the only surviving parts of the project for a great capital city of the Almohad caliphate as well as remains from the Moorish, or Andalusian, principality of the 17th century.
Early in the 16th century, reports of the city on the sand -- then part of the Songhay Empire -- filtered back to Europe through the Moorish diplomat and writer Leo Africanus, adding to the city's near-mythical status as an African El Dorado.
There were serf-like doormen, invisible porters who hauled out the trash, a squad of Polish maids who came Wednesday and Friday mornings to pick up after Kendall and scrub the toilet in the Moorish bathroom and tidy up the sunny kitchen where he ate his lunch.
Outside of festival times, the quiet village offers a dose of understated Algarvian charm: sun-baked white houses feature Moorish design details, such as coloured bars around the doorways, while the petite central square is flanked by a lovely 16th-century church and a tiny cafe selling delicious homemade pastries, cakes and ice cream.
In other words, the Mayor seemingly is indifferent to whether the funding for the mosque sponsored by the Cordoba Initiative (named for the capital city of the Moorish conquerors of Spain and the site where they triumphally transformed a Catholic church into a massive mosque) might be the Saudis, with their version of Shariah known as Wahhabism.
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