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Nedroma Andalusian Music Festival in Nedroma
An Andalusian music festival in Nedroma, a Tlemcen province town built by the Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min and settled by refugees from the Christian Reconquista of Spain, showcasing a locally distinct variant of the broader Gharnati Andalusian classical tradition shared with nearby Tlemcen's own musicians.
Nedroma, a town roughly seventy kilometers from Tlemcen built by the Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min atop an earlier Berber settlement, absorbed a substantial wave of Andalusian Muslim and Jewish refugees fleeing the Christian Reconquista of Spain, giving the town a documented Andalusian heritage that Spanish-Arab scholars have specifically noted persists in its culture.