A bronze bust of Abd al-Rahman III, the first Caliph of Córdoba, was unveiled in June 2016 in the small Spanish town of Cadrete near Zaragoza in Aragon.
Abd al-Rahman III, the eighth and final Emir and first Caliph of Córdoba, ordered the construction of Cadrete's castle in 935 AD while in the area to crush a rebellion by the Banu Tujib vassal dynasty.
[2] In June 2019, local elections resulted in the right-wing People's Party needing an alliance with Citizens and Vox to form government.
The explanation was that it allegedly caused "division and confrontation" and that the prominence of the Plaza de Aragón required symbols identifiable to all residents.
He added that Al-Andalus could not be classed as a foreign occupation, as there is no historical or genetic evidence for mass migration of Arabs, rather the inhabitants converted.