There is a movement, mainly by Spanish historians, trying to correct the bull crap that Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—was a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony.
I am currently reading “The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise” to help get some of the historical facts ans rid myself of the propaganda I have been fed for 80 years, but mainly in the last eight.
Omeya Abd ar-Rahman I of Damascus, the founder of the Emirate of Cordoba, arrived in Almunecar from North Africa 15 August 755 to establish his Moorish kingdom. If you look closely at the first picture I posted you can see a cross on top of the first of 3 rocks sticking out into the sea. That was put up to commemorate the defeat of the Arabs, their surrender at Almuñécar and the beginning of Christian rule in 1489.