Alhambra – “The Red City”

Grenada was the last part of Islamic Spain taken in the Catholic reconquest.

Fernando and Isabel, “Los Catolicos,” finished off this centuries-long reconquista process in 1492. Los Catolicos are buried in Granada.

We visited the Alhambra twice in 2011; once with a tour group and again on our self-guided part, most of which was seeing and/or revisiting places the tour didn’t cover thoroughly enough or at all.

The Alcazaba towers of the Alhambra

Great Hall tower, seen from the Patio of the Myrtles

Jealousy screens prevent court women from being seen from outside

Entrance to the Golden Room seen from the Court of the Golden Room

Arches look into the Patio of the Lions from the Hall of the Two Sisters.

Slender, graceful pillars surround the Patio of the Lions

“There Is No God But Allah” appears over 9000 times in the Nazrid Palace

Wall detail with preserved blue colour

Ceiling in the Hall of the Two Sisters

Wall detail – dome

The Partal Palace’s tower is early 14th C.

Granada Cathedral seen from the Alcazaba – 300 mm zoom & cropped

Just a suicide minibus ride from the centre of Granada

San Nicolas Church in Albayzín seen from the Alhambra – 300mm zoom. They are admiring the Alhambra

Gypsies hill from Alcazaba

The Sierra Nevada mountains

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