THE MOORS: 800 YEARS THAT CHANGED SPAIN FOREVER

🛑BEAUTY & THE BEAST WAS ABOUT THE MOORS & EUROPE BEAST NOT FAIRYTALES. Disney didn’t tell you this part… Most people don’t know that Beauty & The Beast is an allegory of how the Moorish (Black) empire civilized medieval Europe a Europe that was literally described in its own texts as hairy, cave-dwelling, beast-like, and culturally undeveloped. So in the original story…the Europeans themselves depicted their own people as “Wodewos” the medieval term for the Wild Man. In manuscripts from the 12t

From May 17th to 18th, Lleida is transformed with the Moors and Christians Festival, a tradition that relives the ancient battles between Christian and Muslim armies. With parades, music and events in the Seu Vella, the city is filled with history, culture and color.⚔️ The celebration is made up of six groups, three from the Moorish side and three from the Christian side and, a particularity, is that each year a different side wins and, this 2025, the Moors have won the city. Next year you can’t