Andalucia Museum of Memory is located in Granada and is very good attempt of creating the interesting spatial experience through an elliptic central court which is designed to connect 3 levels spaces via the featured circular ramp. The architect of the museum is Alberto Campo Baeza, who said that ” The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements to communicate the messages of the new millennium in which we are already immersed.”

The museum transmits the entire history of Andalusia. As early as Roman times, Strabo described the inhabitants of Andalusia as “the most cultivated of the Iberians, who have laws in verse. Everything is arranged around a central courtyard, in elliptical form in which circular ramps rise, connecting the three levels and creating a very interesting spatial tension. The dimensions of the elliptical courtyard have been taken from the courtyard of the Palace of Charles the V in the Alhambra.

And to complete the entire operation, a large horizontal platform all the way to the River, the MA open FIELD that will serve as a public space in that new area of the city of Granada. The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements to communicate the messages of the new millennium in which we are already immersed.

Ometepe is an eco-tourism island with a lack of hotels, but many islanders are opening their homes to low paying guests. Ometepe’s unique double-breasted shape was foretold in a vision to Nahuas and Chorotegas who came from Mexico and made it their sanctuary. Photo by: NicaRagans

The friendly Ometepinos are always willing to show you some fresh delight on the island. You can sample its phenomenal riches on an easy hike on Maderas, the extinct and smaller volcano. Its crater is slightly spooky cold lagoon, set in a thick tropical jungle which really is full of down to the Charco Verde Reserve, where you find the best beaches – and an ancient witch called Chico Largo, who may offer you a life of luxury in return of transmuting your soul into one of the island’s cows. Photo by: Jungle_Boy

Sunset at Punta Jesus Maria, the western tip, where a 5 m wide sandbar projects 1 km into the lake, with water splashing you from both sides. Troops of howler, white-faced and spider monkeys en route to swimming at the jungle San Ramon waterfall, along with hummingbirds and urraca (blue-tailed magpies). Staying quite still, looking at and listening to the living fairytale. Photo by: bhlogiston

When to go: Year-round, so come for the fiestas patronales like Moyogalpa’s Santa Ana in July, when the Baile de las Inditasdance celebrates both Spanish and indigenous culture; or Altagracia’s all-dancing, all-drinking feast of San Diego in November. Ometepe hold more folk and religious festivals than anywhere else in Nicaragua. Population: 35,000. How to get there: By boat from San Jorge on the lake shore near Rivas; or the ferry from Granada – San Carlos, which stops to Ometepe and which you must book in advance. Photo by: Joerg Zwingli

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Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous region of Andalusia, Spain. This is a project  of the Science Park in Granada. The park starts with the construction of a single roof with small inflections that looks like an open hand, covering the different programmatic pieces interconnected on a continuous space.

The proposed spatial structure allows for a big flexibility of uses and situations that interconnect circulations and themes.

The big roof has a profile that reminds the skyline of the Granada mountains. The development of the big topographic roof adapts to the volumetric requirements, generating in its interior large and tall enclosed spaces that house the different programs.

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.