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A Pleasure Palace and a Clock
Just outside Toledo, near the river before it flows around the city, there is a small, delicate palace built by a Moorish king or governor in the eighth century. He built it for his daughter, the Princess Galiana. Its flowered … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, history, Spain, Toledo
Tagged beautiful princess, clock, invention, King Alfonso VI, Merlin, Moorish palace, mystery, secret mechanism, wizard
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