Alhambra
Hilltop Nasrid fortress-palace complex of carved stucco halls, courtyards and towers above the city.
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This guide to the Alhambra in Granada opens with the Moor's Last Sigh, the legend of Boabdil, the last Nasrid sultan, and the rebuke his mother Aisha is said to have delivered on a mountain pass south of the city. It carries you into the Comares Tower rising before you, the complex's tallest, where sultans once received foreign envoys beneath a ceiling of eight thousand carved wooden pieces. Historians note the famous rebuke only turns up in chronicles written decades after the fact. Stand beneath that ceiling and look up at the intricate woodwork above the old throne room.
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