Spain's Ancient Jewish Past

Rows of granite slabs mark the spot where ancient Jewish graves lay just outside the 11th-century walls that surround Avila in central Spain. Local authorities spent 250,000 euros ( (Dollar) 335,000) to build the memorial garden -- which opened last year -- on the grounds of a medieval Jewish cemetery in what used to be an empty field behind a monastery. A plaque explains, in Spanish and English, that the cemetery was dismantled after Spain's King Ferdinand and ...