Denia: A Muslim Port in Spain

A Time Team special as part of the On the Line season. A Muslim port is revealed under this modern-day Spanish town.

A Time Team special as part of the On the Line season. A Muslim port is revealed under this modern-day Spanish town.

Just along the coast from Benidorm on Spain’s Costa Blanca, the port of Denia was a bustling Arab town from 711 to 1242. Today, its castle is the only visible reminder of the Muslim Arab presence, which dominated Spain for 500 years after the initial invasion by Arabs and Berbers from North Africa in 711. Yet under the buildings of the modern town are extensive remains of the earlier Islamic town, which consisted of a main fortified centre and an adjoining suburb…