Alhambra, Costa Del Sol

Alhambra - details and images

Alhambra is a set of buildings into a fortress that dominates the plain and the town of Granada, located in front of a popular and picturesque district, Albaicin.

From there you see the snowy peaks of Sierra Nevada. Among these buildings is a Moorish palace complex that glorify it, and Karl V. baroque palace and a church built on the site of a former mosque.

Alhambra in Granada is one of the most important monuments of Islamic architecture. This, together with the Great Mosque of Cordoba are the most prestigious evidence of Muslim presence in Spain since the eighth century until the fifteenth century. Alhambra word comes from Al Hamra, "red" in Arabic, because of the color that rocks the palace.

Despite the willingness of the Catholic Kings to obliterate Islam from the territories reconquered by the Christians after the fall of Granada in 1492, the Moorish palace was so beautiful that it could not be destroyed and remained in use as their royal palace.

Construction plan of the palace is confusing. It is organized into several rectangular rooms, partly integrated into the site, connected by lobby, and arranged around the two jewels, the court myrtle trees (Patio de los arrayanes) and court Lions (Patio de los Leones). One can speak of an art rather than an architecture of your design.

The exterior is austere, while interior design is fascinating, based on three components of classical Arabic art: calligraphy, stylized floral decoration and geometric motifs.

Alhambra in 1492 was conquered by the Spanish, they immediately began to demolish mosques and all the inscriptions in Arabic, but what they have done too late is that what they believe is just a floral motif on the walls is all actually an infinitely repeated inscription, "Only God creates perfection" in this case Alhamra was never completed. These people have created a new style of design.

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