With an Islamic star fountain at its centre, the small, sunken Emir Mohamed I Park is built around what's left of Mayrit's original, 9th-century town walls - the 150-meter-long (492-foot) section of which seen here saw here is four to 6m (13-20 ft.) high, about half of its original height - which originally enclosed a modest area of around four hectares (ten acres). Even now, gazing upon them leads the imagination to muse what it must have been like here more than 1,100 years ago.

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David Paul Appell