Alhambra > Hill of Sabika ---- This plate is encircled by the Muraille S of Enceinte of Alhambra. It crowns the hill of the same name, to see Colline of Sabika. The point of view on its close hill, that of the Albaicin, is immediate.

To refer to Alhambra for the masterly buildings.

The Catholics invest Alhambra

The first gesture of Kings Catholiques was to make a mass in which the capacity known as pagan was denounced which built in these places the Palais nasrides.

They built then religious buildings on the plate:

• Sainte-Marie church of Alhambra.
• Convent Saint-François

Lastly, dazzled by the culture found on the walls of Alhambra and their palatine lifestyle, they asked the mudéjars to diffuse on all the peninsula the continuity of Moorish architecture, mosaics of earthenware, thermal baths Arab and other technical establishments.

See also: Islamic Civilization out of Al-Andalus

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Complex hotel and tourist

One of the shops is a photographer who since the 19th century follows progress of the photographic Technique and proposes stereotypes memories in disguise of time, with reproduction of the room giving in prospect a fictitious sight on the Patio for the Lions; returned is rather faithful to the sight obtained by visiting the Palais Nasrides. Time that the small bird flies away leaves the leisure be caught for a palatine emir at the court.

In addition to the souvenir shops, it is possible to sleep in the enclosure even of Alhambra, where are:

• a small three-star hotel in a house, Amorica ;
• a Parador four stars.

Ruins

Jewel of the Moorish achievements in Iberian peninsula, Alhambra returns in imaginary Spanish to a aventuresque epopee which built the tales of Reconquista, starting from oral legends. Washington Irving tells at which point moults Spanish 19th century excavated the ruins of the palates in the hope to find a fabulous treasure Berber hidden only in their imagination.

These hunters of treasure was replaced by archeologists, then restorers.

On the plate of Sabika are the following ruins:

• destroyed by time:

• ruins of the Médina, houses of faithful the Ancillaire S of the princes nasrides; to click here.
• a royal Acequia : <à développer>
• destroyed for lack of place:
• a palate former to Nasrides existed, there was destroyed during the construction of the Palais nasrides, on its site are built other buildings.
• certain palates were destroyed consequently with the internal dissensions which shook the Kingdom of Grenade:
• the palate of the Abencérages (of notable which were assassinated by Nasrides), reduced to the state of ruins, on the left of the point of interior passage.

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