+35 ptsBaths from a caliphal palace survive beneath this Christian fortress. Thick stone walls, four corner towers and inner courtyards surround gardens of clipped hedges, orange trees, pools and narrow channels. Christopher Columbus met Ferdinand and Isabella here in 1486.
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