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Updated: May 2, 2025
The Moors tore down or modified the cathedral, and erected their principal mosque in its stead. When, three hundred years later, they surrendered their Tolaitola to Alfonso VI. , they stipulated for the retention of their mezquita, a clause the king, who had but little time to lose squabbling, was only too glad to allow.
Gone are the days when Tolaitola was a peerless jewel, for which Moors and Christians fought, until at last the Believers of the True Faith drove back the Arabs who fled southward from whence they had emerged.
Nearly four hundred years did the Arabs remain in their beloved Tolaitola; the traces of their occupancy are everywhere visible: in the streets and in the patios, in fanciful arabesques, and above all in Santa Maria la Blanca. The Spaniards returned and brought Christianity back with them. They erected an immense cathedral and turned mosques into chapels without altering the Oriental form.
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