Medina Al Zahara is an archeological site a few miles from Cordoba. It consists of he ruins of a
palace/fortress built by local moslem rulers and destroyed by more recent arrivals from northern
Africa that held more fundamentalist views of Islam and considered those that lived in Al Andalus
apretty decadent lot. What is left of the ruins makes it easier to understand how the lifestyle of the
occupants would look decadent to hardier souls of more nomadic habits. Not much is restored,
but the parts that are give you a very nice impression of what the place would have been.

After wandering around the ruins for a couple of hours, we drove west to Sevilla with the sun setting
fast ahead of us.