It’s a beautiful book. Don’t read it. Just go there.
Perferably at night.
Alhambra: „It was the royal abode
oft he Moorish kings, where, surrounded with the splendours and refinements of
Asiativ luxury, they held dominion over what they vaunted as a terrestrial
paradise, and made their last stand for empire in Spain. The royal palace forms
but a part of a fortress, the walls of which, studded with towers, stretch
irregularly round the whole crest of a hill, a spur oft he Sierra Nevada or
Snowy Mountains, and overlook the city; externally it is a rude congregation of
towers and battlements, with not regularity of plan nor grace of architecture,
and giving little promise oft he grace and beauty which prevail within.“
(Irving, 1977, p.33).
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