The Alhambra is a beautiful collection of buildings and gardens. The tree-lined walks are luscious, providing pleasant shade and coolness, enhanced by the abundance of water that flows in its streams. This palace structure was started after the Reconquista, the reconquering of Spain performed by the Christian kings, started. This adds to its aura. While the illiterate Christians were advancing, Spain reached its highest cultural level ever, but under the Muslim rulers. The slender structure of Alhambra…

There is no reference to the Alhambra as being a residence of kings until the 13th century, even though the fortress had existed since the 9th century. The first kings of Granada, the Zirites, had their castles and palaces on the hill of the Albaicin, and nothing remains of them. The Nasrites were probably the emirs who built the Alhambra, starting in 1238.
Sadly, the Alhambra Palace Spain entered a “dark age” of sorts when it was abandoned to thieves and vagrants during the 18th century. During the time Napoleon controlled Spain, the Alhambra was used as a barracks for French soldiers, and, at one point, was almost blown up. After it was declared a national monument in 1870, Romantic writers like Washington Irving, author of Tales of the Alhambra, brought the fortress to the world’s attention, and prompted the restoration of the palace and the Alhambra gardens Spain.

The highlights of any tour of the Alhambra palace Spain, include the fabulously decorated emi. The Patio de los Leones’s palace, the Generalife (the Alhambra’s meticulous gardens) and the Palacio Nazaries. The Patio of the Lions, named for the fountain in the center of the courtyard. Twelve stout lions support the bowl. Somehow, in a manner defying common sense and physics, the fountain was recirculated without the aid of a pump.
Architecture, ingenious water systems, art or history – whatever has your interest, the magical Alhambra enthrals everyone, even if you only want to see a beautiful building or mountains under the Spanish.