Lorca

Town, 63 km from Murcia. A key town between the Levant and Andalucia, it has a vast number of palaces and churches, but mainly from the 16th Century and later. Little remains of the Muslim town of the Cid's day.

Latitude: 37.68. Longitude: -1.7.

• Book VI Chapter XI:

  Now came true tidings to Valencia that the host of the Almoravides were coming, and that they were now at Lorca, and the son-in-law of the Miramamolin at their head, for he himself could not come, by reason that he ailed.

• Book VI Chapter XIII:

  Now came true tidings that the host of the Almoravides, which was at Lorca, was coming on through Murcia, and that the tarriance which they had made had been by reason of their Captain, who had fallen sick, but he was now healed, and they were advancing fast.