Sigh of the Moor
The Soupir of the Moor ( Suspiro del Moro ) is a collar to 860 m of altitude, not of principal passage between Grenade and the Mediterranean coast (by the valley of the Guadalfeo) with Motril, on a44 highway.
In 1492, at the time of the fall of Grenade, its ultimate sovereign, Boabdil, would have known at this place of the depressive moments of melancholy to the evocation of the last visions on its city, distant of a few kilometers but between inaccurate hands. His/her mother, `Â' icha ( Aixa ), would then have said to him You cry as a woman what you did not know to defend like a man. , it is at least what tells the popular hagiography.
Locally, it is impossible to circumvent: the least bar, closes (granja) or complex hotel posts the name Suspiro del Moro , Suspiro or Moro , pointing out this detail.
A painting also shows exiled in the presence of its family, pouring tears on its city, overhung fantastic jewel which is the Alhambra lost forever for him, although he knew palatine refinements closely of them.
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