This video cracks me up everytime
They even went as far as turning mosques into churches, not fully washing away the islamic characters of it which can still be seen.That is correct. But imagine how different it was when they went to extreme lengths to purge the characters of the past period. An example of this was the systematic "re-Latinization" of the Spanish language. They were not entirely successful, with today's Arabic being the second largest influence in Spanish above that of Germanic or other Roance influences.