Généralife

The Généralife is, in the Alhambra, the palate of summer of the princes Nasrides.

Of an extreme refinement, it makes it possible to take shade and cooling on edge of the making uneven the water basins, by collecting, of the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, with far.

Until its etymology, Généralife (or Jannat Al-Arif , the Paradise or the garden of the architect ) translated the expression of the spiritual way of thinking of the Arab aristocrats of the Islam: to live the paradise, it is HERE and NOW (set of themes of the Transcendance and the Immanence).

Comparing this palatine life with the Christian Western ideology of the same moment, based on the repurchase of the faults at the end to secure a place with the Paradise after a life of labor, a quite pale trickery appears!

But for this, it is necessary to have visited the gardens of the palate of summer to realize some…

Généralife thus offers a succession of rooms, inner basins, balconies, gardens, hedges.

Description

Palate of Généralife

  • New gardens of Généralife
New gardens , with the hill of Albaicin in background.
the top is arranged to give an aspect of Labyrinthe to the vegetable walls crenelated are. Probably, the emirs nasrides never knew them in this form; though the interior aspect of the gardens, with water basins, was respected. -->

  • Patio of the stables of Généralife, patio of descabalgamiento

  • Patio of access to Généralife
  • basin of Généralife Patio of Acequia
    • Portique is (entered)
    • western Balcon
      • This balcony gives a very beautiful sight on the Albayzín which faces Généralife.
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  • Patio of the Sultana
  • Gardens of the Sultana, in the Généralife , upper part
these gardens contain a plate homage reproducing the Letter of the poet Juan Boscan to the duchess of Summoned.

High gardens

  • high Gardens of Généralife
    • Staircase of Water
    • View from above since the terrace of the romantic Watchtower of Généralife.
      Les jets of water, idea indroduite by Arabic to refresh the Courtier S of the palate the summer, were going to conquer all the pleasure gardens of Europe as from the High Rebirth.
    • romantic Watchtower of Généralife
      • Seen covered terrace of the romantic Watchtower of Généralife
19th century, by the administrator of the inheritance of the Marquis de Campotéjar

Amphitheater

  • Amphitheater of Généralife
in construction at the time of the visit of the contributor in these articles.
    • Gone covered at exit of Généralife.
This be allowing to the visitors gardens to obtain shade resembles those of the Jardins of Boboli Florence, as comparison.

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