The whole week was nice and cool until the day before we were supposed to go to the Alhambra and then it got to about 35 degrees celsius. It was uncomfortably hot, but nonetheless we still enjoyed our visit to the Alhambra. A short little history on this palace, courtesy of Wikipedia: it was created in the 14th century by the Moorish rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus, which is now Andalusia, Spain. These palaces were built for the Muslim Emirs in Spain and its court, of the Nasrid dynasty. Many years after the Moors were defeated by the Catholic Monarchs, the Palace of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, was built inside the Alhambra. It covers about 1,530,000 square feet. Okay, that's enough! The Islamic architecture was my favorite part; the engravings, the arches, the vaults, the arabesques, everything was done with such amazing detail you wonder how long it took them. (I tried to find it on wikipedia but i had to read too much)
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| Court of the Lions |
The one things I was majorly disappointed by was that one, it didn't look like it did in my history book, and two, the Court of the Lions was under construction or something and so it wasn't available to see. The lions were displayed indoors but you couldn't even take pictures of them. Super bummed! I was looking forward to that part the most! This is what it would have looked like:
Other than that it was pretty amazing. I put pictures up on photobucket.com. Just type in my email celeste.kuhlman@gmail.com and the PIN is cecepics.
xo
Ce
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| The view from the Alhambra castles |
Great pics, Ce. LOTS OF THEM!! You are a good photographer. Some of the pics should be enlarged and framed.
ReplyDeleteSorry you were a little disappointed at the Alhambra, but there are other places where you've been pleasantly surprised!
Love you, Mop