The day in Granada, and watchman of his city, always wide-awake, the Alhambra raises itself arrogant on the hill of the Sabika, between brown, poplars, elm trees and hazels. To its side, the Darro and the Genil; to its backs, high the summit of Sierra Nevada. And it, sublimates, imposes her respect and its “nazarí” elegance. Ever since in 1238 king Muhammad I put his first stones, this architectonic set already began to stand out like one of most imposing of the world. Each patio, each room, each palace, each garden, has a characteristic seal, a poetry note enrolled in its walls in form of engravings, gratings, waters and flowers.

The most classic entrance is that one to which it is acceded from the center of Granada, raising the hill of Gomerez. Under the Door of the Justice that gives entrance to all the set, the subjects of the town were judged. According to it says in he himself arc, it was constructed by Yusuf I, and finished in 1348. This tower of Justice is characterized by its double arc vaulted in brick, in which they say allusive mentions to the power of Wing. Once we crossed this door, we were inside with three zones differentiated clearly: the part of the Fortress, lodging of the military trimming that was in charge to defend it, and leaves older from all the set; the zone of the Nazaríes Palaces, that are the authentic heart of the Alhambra, by their beauty and its importance, and the gardens of the Generalife. Also it is of great beauty and worthy to visit the palace of Carlos V. The Fortress: Once we crossed the Door of Justice, arrived at the Seat of the Rain tanks, from where we will be able to accede to the fortified part and the zone of the palaces. To mainly emphasize of this zone the Tower and its Patio of the Arms and the Tower of Vela. This one is raised like a great bastion on the city of Granada, that their feet have left there empequeñecida. Shown her we will obtain wonderful views of all the district of the Albaicín. Until it does very little, its bell served as touch so that at dusk the agriculturists of the fertile valley gathered and they left to house. The Nazaríes Palaces But the part of the Fortress shows incomparable views to us of all granadina Vega, the zone of the Palaces offers everything to us a cluster of art and beauty. And it is that each one of its rooms deserves a section; a shutdown; an admiration; a photography. Yusuf I rebuilt the Golden Quarter and the Mexuar, the first room that we will be, and that so many transformations have suffered throughout the centuries. Here the great court of the kingdom had his seat. In center of the room mozárabes that are raised until the ceiling, of Christian time are four columns. The walls are covered with tiles and in her it is the shield of Carlos V. Emphasizes a wood balustrade that gives foot to the choir of the room. If there is something it emphasizes of the work that bequeathed Yusuf to us I, that was without a doubt the Palace of Coseas, the one that was its official residence in the Alhambra. Their walls tiled in socles and the reasons for yesería that they adorn it are authentic wonders, that are tranforman in admiration, when we crossed them to enter the Patio of the Arrayanes. In him they are, without a doubt, many of the great profits of the nazarí art. In its center, a precious pool reflects the columns that surround it; their walls were decorated with yesería in geometric forms, and in them the orations directed to Wing abound. Its name must to the bulks of arrayanes that border the pool, and whose green color contrasts excessively with the white marble of the ground of the patio

Mohammed V, son of Yusuf I, bequeathed another one to us of great works of the set; the one that is perhaps the symbol more known the Alhambra: the Palace of the Lions and its famous patio. This palace is the part more baroque of all the enclosure. And even so, its light, its colorful one, its atmosphere, invites to the reflection, to relax, to the tranquillity; and it is that as much the Palace, as their Patio was constructed with that idea: the one of the rest. It must to the name to the twelve lions jets of the source that occupy the center of the patio and which they are created belonged to Jewish .

To the sides of the patio they are worthy to visit the Room of the Abencerrajes and the one of the Two Sisters, perhaps one of most beautiful of all the Palace. Crossing the Room of the Abencerrajes, we arrived until the rooms of Carlos V, composed by six rooms, of which, four, they were lived to half-full of century XIX by the Washington writer Irving, who wrote his “Stories of the Alhambra”. Finally, to mention the not less well-known Gardens of the Partal, constructed in steps, and between which one rises, the Tower of the Ladies. The Palace of Carlos V Right to the entrance of the Palaces we were with its Palace, in 1526. The building was in charge to the architect Pedro Machuca, and is raised in Renaissance style. To emphasize of him, mainly, its circular patio of 31 meters of diameter. The Gardens of the Generalife I advise letting the gardens to finish the visit. And it is that to take a walk by them it is a little while of incomparable tranquillity. They are so beautiful, so colorful, so refresh, that it pleases to forget all the fatigue, of all the stress of the day absorbing his scents; admiring its colors; feeling its corners. To see fall the day between its many trees and flowers is an unforgettable sensation. Constructed in century XIV, the Patio of Acequia is its more important part. Made up of arrayanes, cypresses, naranjos and rosales, they frame to one long drain that along crosses the patio, between crystalline water jets. In each end of the drain, two small sources in cup form. With the other, the patio of the Cypresses, runs a legend. Under one of its cypresses, the denominated one of the Sultana, saw the woman of Boabdil with one of its horsemen “abencerrajes”, which caused the death of the gentlemen of this tribe, which they were cut the throat of by order of the Sultán. Its magnificent stamp; its meaning in the history of our country; its beauty; its art, its poetry, has been worth to him that has been named candidate to appear between new the 7 wonders of the World

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