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Informationen zum Autor Michael Jacobs is Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the Hispanic Department of the University of Glasgow. He is the author of numerous books on art and travel, including Alhambra, Madrid for Pleasure, In the Glow of the Phantom Palace, The Road to Santiago and The Factory of Light: Tales from My Andalucian Village. Klappentext ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES CAPTURED GLORIOUSLY. In this masterly book, Michael Jacobs looks with fresh eyes at all the traditional delights of Andalucia while doing full justice to the lesser-known aspects of the region. He examines the underrated local food and drink, the extraordinarily varied natural scenery, the composers and writers who created the romantic myths and legends of the nineteenth century, the strange legacy of Lorca and the Spanish Civil War. Moorish remains, its outstanding prehistoric and classical heritage and its exuberant Renaissance and Baroque monuments make it one of the richest regions of Europe for the visitor. Nearly a hundred Andalucian villages and towns are described in the gazetteer, some of whichSeville, Granada, Cordoba and Cadizare as lovely and as haunting as anywhere in the world.
