Puerta Azul

Went to Paco the toms’ house for lunch today. He lives in the old barrio in a very old house. He had prepared a classic bacalao (salt cod) dish. He has a very old blue door on his house. Apparently it dates from Moorish times. He does talk a load of twaddle does Paco.

Factoid: The word Moors derives from the Latin mauri, a name for the Berber tribes living in Roman Mauretania (modern day Algeria and Morocco). It has no ethnographic meaning but can be used to refer to all Muslims, Berber or Arab, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula.

These Moors, who were religious fanatics, arrived in Spain in the year 711 and thus began a period of history which would shape Iberia differently than the rest of Europe as the land adapted to a new religion, language and culture. Hispania became a part of the caliph of Damascus which was the capital of the Muslim world.