The Historian · Rui · Lisbon
Alfama
This maze is Moorish, not medieval-Christian. The quake spared it, so it's the only pre-1755 city that's left.
The old Moorish quarter below the castle — the tangle of lanes the 1755 quake spared, the oldest street plan in Lisbon.
— Rui, The Historian
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