- silence

- This entirely reconstituted village reminds us that a few centuries ago Spain in the Arabic language was called Al Andalous. At the time, in Grenada, Seville or even in Cordoba,

- the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims lived in good terms. A reminder by Monique Atlan, with wonderful images by Pierre Moskovitch.

- music

- Once upon a time in the gardens of the Alcazar, Spain of the time of Muslim splendor.

- A golden age when in the shadow of the crescent 3 religions accepted one another. As an interlude in an ocean of war.

- A time when Andalusia through its philosophers, its poets, its musicians, would fertilize the entire West for centuries.

- For Rodrigo De Zayas, a writer and a musician in Seville, this golden age is not a myth but nostalgia.

- Taking advantage from everything the Mediterranean region produced, since the Greeks’ culture, the pagans’ culture, including the Jewish culture,

- including the Christian culture and of course the Muslim culture.

- So this meeting was explosive as they produced wonderful things.

- One can remember prestigious names such as Averroes, then in the 12th century

- a translation school that translated his works in Latin for the rest of Europe to make him famous.

- The hydraulic wheel that is essential for farming, the first surgery instruments, the astrolabe and the basics of mathematics are owed to Muslim Cordoba.

- An architecture inspired that centuries of Christianity will little by little take for themselves.

- So from the minaret that overlooks the cathedral of Seville or to the church truly set between the columns of the mosque of Cordoba.

- But from the shade to the light the gem remains untouched, the Alhambra in Grenada, its pleasures, its gardens.

- Jewish Andalusia as well, with less common traces. To which the astronomers, the doctors, the poets bow in front of the high profile of philosopher Maimonides.

- As many interweaved origins that Spain can accept now. But more than the stones or the books, the song of the water recalls this sometimes forgotten history.

- Everybody who came here at the very beginning came from the desert. And the price for the water that runs is truly the top equipment,

- the highest sensuality one may know of.

- And still today, not a single proper Andalusian has no singing fountain.