Generalife Gardens
Cypress-shaded Nasrid summer garden of terraces, water channels and a legendary six-hundred-year-old tree.
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This guide to the Generalife Gardens in Granada opens with the legend of Morayma, said to be the wife of Boabdil, Granada's last Muslim ruler, and a nighttime meeting beneath an ancient cypress that ended in the destruction of the Abencerraje family. The six-hundred-year-old tree still stands where the story places it, and the guide uses it to trace a court riven by feuds in the dynasty's final decades, even as a bigger reckoning closed in from outside. A treaty signed in 1492 promised these gardens would be spared. Look for the blackened, hollow trunk beside the water channel as you walk through.
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