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Visit these Ruins when Spending Holidays to Costa del Sol
South of Spain at the autonomous community of Andalusia is Costa del Sol. The land is composed of communities that dot the Mediterranean coastline of the province of Malaga. In the past, the region was made up of small fishing settlements, but today, Costa del Sol is now a world-renowned tourist destination.
Aside from its excellent beaches, luxurious hotels, and superb visitor facilities, Costa del Sol is also known for quite a number of carefully preserved ruins that are scattered all over the place. This is not surprising considering that the settlement of the region goes back to the Bronze Age. Since then, Costa del Sol has been colonized by several cultures such as the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors.
If you are planning to spend your holidays to Costa del Sol, set aside a schedule to visit these ruins, for they will provide you a glimpse of the region’s old days. Here are just some of them.
1. The Daimalos Minaret
This ancient minaret was erected on an old mosque called the Minaret of Daimalos. As one of the oldest Spanish minarets, it is considered an important historic monument by the Junta de Andalucia. The structure is constructed out of handmade brick and masonry.
2. The Arabic Bathhouses
This ancient structure in Ronda was built more than 7 centuries ago. Recent excavations showed three chambers of the bathhouse that were used for cold, warm, and hot baths. Semicircular arches join together the three chambers, and high above them are barrel-vaulted roofs. These roofs have star-shaped windows that allow sunlight, creating a gentle shadowy effect that induces rest. Old boilers and water pipes are also carefully prserved.
3. Calzada Romana
Situated at the outskirts of Monda, this stone road, which was built 20 centuries ago during Roman times, was used as a pathway to transport oil and grain to the port of Malaka. The remnants of the stone slabs that mark the road are very well preserved.
4. Campo Santo de Casabermeja
This old cemetery in Casabermeja is quite unique because of its whitewashed mausoleums, tombs, and pinnacles. The ruins are beautifully preserved, and the site has been designated as a national monument in 1980.
Include visits to these awesome structures in your holiday destinations to Costa del Sol. Book your trip through Travel Republic.
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The guide described by The New York Times as "indispensable," newly researched and completely rewritten for 2011, fills a vital niche for expatriates and Cairenes alike who need a helping hand to organize–and enjoy–the challenges of a sojourn in Cairo. The basics of daily life–finding a flat, transporting personal goods, investigating school options for children, navigating Egypt`s famous bureaucracy, and the intricacies of feeding and clothing oneself and one`s family from the local market–are all detailed here. Advice gathered from a wide range of Cairo insiders, both native and foreign, gives the reader a cornucopia of current facts on prices, neighborhoods, product availability, work and business opportunities, and the dizzying range of cultural and leisure pursuits that Cairo is famous for. Cairo: The Practical Guide, now in its seventh edition, is the key to deciphering the complexities of living, working, and enjoying life in one of the world`s most exciting and dauntingly complex mega-cities.
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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city’s history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form.In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo’s built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order—a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt`s various rulers and regimes—from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond—have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.
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This beautiful unframed Landscape photo print makes a great photography addition to any room or office. Artist: Stewart ParrTitle: Cairo, Egypt – Giza Pyramids Product type: Unframed Print Style: Contemporary Format: Horizontal Size: Small Subject: LandscapesImage dimensions: 11" x 14"
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Minarets have defined Cairo’s skyline since its early history: they are one of the most characteristic features of Islamic architecture. In Egypt, where civilizations have manifested themselves through awe-inspiring structures since antiquity, "a thousand minarets" reveal the impact of Islamic civilization and urban aesthetics. The Minarets of Cairo offers an accessible and vivid insight into the religious, historical and architectural significance of the minaret in Cairo from the Arab Conquest, through the Abbasid, Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Students and scholars will welcome historian and art historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif’s excellent new research and analysis as well as over one hundred illustrated entries for individual minarets, brought to life by Nicholas Warner’s masterly architectural drawings and reconstructions. With nearly three hundred illustrations, this beautiful book provides depth and colour, displaying to full effect historic Cairo’s most impressive monuments.
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Naguib Mahfouz`s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writer`s masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain`s occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad`s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz`s vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. Throughout the trilogy, the family`s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.
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Artist: Stewart ParrTitle: Cairo, Egypt – Sphinx and Khufu Pyramid Product type: Unframed print Style: Contemporary Format: Horizontal Size: Small Subject: LandscapesImage dimensions: 16 inches high x 20 inches wide
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How do women use courts within the context of paternity lawsuits? This study analyzes the challenges that the formal legal approach to empowering women faces once it is translated into everyday socio-legal experiences and court repertoires. It also seeks to trace the pathologies inherent in personal status law reform and normal legal practices in Egypt, attesting to the limitations of law as an agent of social change in the private domain of the family. It mainly sheds light on the difficulties of separating formal legal rules from informal social practices. It also explores the problem of paternity claims in Egypt. Adding to growing literature on the use of legal mobilization to advance gender equity, this study offers insights on the often-neglected role of social norms in court experiences, often leading to unexpected consequences that sometimes defy the intended goals behind policies and legislation.
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While sacred spaces cannot be narrowed down to particular forms or meanings, they do in their meanings and functions express fundamental values and principles, and in doing so, they perform the work of religion itself. This issue is made up of a collection of essays on the various meanings, functions, and negations of sacred space in Egypt as well as the Middle and Near East. It is divided into three parts: meanings and functions of contemporary sacred spaces, historical perspectives on sacred space, and sacred space in literature and philosophy.
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The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US`s Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the putative leader of the Arab world and a beacon for all developing nations. Yet in the decades prior to the 2011 revolution, it was ruled over by a sclerotic regime plagued by nepotism and corruption. During that time, its economy declined into near shambles, a severely overpopulated Cairo fell into disrepair, and it produced scores of violent Islamic extremists such as Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mohammed Atta. In The Struggle for Egypt, noted regional specialist Steven Cook explains how this parlous state of affairs came to be, why the revolution occurred, and where Egypt might be headed next. A sweeping account of Egypt in the modern era, it incisively chronicles all of the nation`s central historical episodes: the decline of British rule, the rise of Nasser and his quest to become a pan-Arab leader, Egypt`s decision to make peace with Israel and ally with the United States, the assassination of Sadat, the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood, and–finally–the demonstrations that convulsed Tahrir Square and overthrew an entrenched regime.
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