La Reconquista Empieza

Around the year 722, almost all of Hispania had fallen. In the misty mountains of Asturias, a nobleman named Pelayo gathered a few hundred survivors in a cave called Covadonga and refused to surrender.

When the Moorish army came to crush them, they fought from the rocks and won. It was a tiny victory, but it lit a fire that would burn for nearly eight hundred years.

Generation after generation, fathers handed the sword to their sons.

Toledo was retaken in 1085. El Cid rode into Valencia. At Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, the Christian kingdoms united and broke the Moorish armies.

Mile by mile, century by century, they fought their way south until only Granada remained.

From one cave, a nation would be born where at the height of its power, the sun would never set.