Andalucía in southern Spain is a land of bullfighting and dancing horses, flamenco and exotic architecture, and warm, welcoming people.
Andalucía is the largest of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions, located between the Sierra Morena Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. In fabled Andalucía, east melded with west in perfect synchronicity; here, an exotic stew of Gypsy, Jewish, Moorish, and Christian peoples existed in peaceful coalition for eight centuries, achieving extraordinary heights in the arts and sciences.
As early as the 6th century, Jews arrived in northern Spain, purportedly descendents of King David’s lineage. Eventually they migrated south to Andalucía to enjoy the favourable conditions established by the Moors, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula in 711 A.D. In the 9th century, Romani people (Gypsies) migrated from Rajasthan in Northwest India to settle in Iberia.
