La Rendición de Granada

For nearly eight hundred years, generation after generation fought to take back the land.

Fathers fell, and their sons picked up the sword.

Then on January 2, 1492, the last Moorish stronghold opened its gates. Sultan Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil, rode out from the Alhambra and handed the keys of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella.

Legend says that as he looked back one last time from the mountain pass, he wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not defend like a man.

That spot is still called the Moor's Last Sigh. The bells rang. The Reconquista was over.

Through suffering came glory.