All throughout our trip we´ve been seeing plaques that annouce that Washington Irving stayed in such-and-such a place. We thought how random that the Spanish would care, are they obsessed with the legend of Sleepy Hollow? Now we have learned that he wrote several Romantic histories of Spain, America, and Columbus. Some credit Irving with spreading the myth that medieval Spanish thought the world was flat before Columbus. He also wrote the Tales of the Alhambra, which revived interest in the then-abandoned palaces and lead to its preservation as a current UNESCO World Heritage Site.