Fountain in the Praca al Mutamid, Silves, Portugal, Europe.


Silves, Algarve, Portugal. Town square with fountains. The square on the water front of the Arade river is named after this famous Moorish poet and writer One of the most prominent personalities of his time in Al-Andalus, the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. As a member of the Abbadid dynasty, he became governor of Silves at the age of 13 and inherited Seville as caliph after the death of his father. He was a friend and promoter of the sciences and the poetry and known as a poet and writer himself.


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Location: Silves, Western Algarve, Portugal
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