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ART TOOK ROOT WHERE MOORS AND KINGS RULED
CUENCA - Poised between earth and sky, this small mountaintop city is as improbable as it is beguiling. Built by Arab warriors as a castle in the air in 714, Cuenca filled with convents and monasteries in the Middle Ages. It has always been a place where passion and contemplation go hand in hand, where the life of the mind ......
Bost. Globe -- 10 Mar 2010 19:42:54 EST