{"id":4430,"date":"2020-12-13T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T12:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:03:14","slug":"the-kingdom-of-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/the-kingdom-of-castles\/","title":{"rendered":"The kingdom of castles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the arrival of the Moors to the Iberian Peninsula across the Straits of Gibraltar in 711, a long period of nearly eight centuries known as the \u2018Reconquista\u2019 began, during which the Christian kingdoms advanced southwards from the north, slowly gaining territory. This period ended with the victory of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, over the last redoubt of the Moors, the Kingdom of Granada in 1492, the year of the Discovery of America, which marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. Up to that point, from the seventh century, the advance of the original kingdoms in Spain, starting from what is now Asturias, left its mark on the landscape in the form of a multitude of defensive constructions and overlooks: towers, walls, fortresses and, above all, castles.<\/p>\n