Museo de la Alhambra
Ground-floor palace museum of Nasrid art, home to a gilded royal vase once believed to hold protective power.
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This guide to the Museo de la Alhambra in Granada centers on the jarrón de las gacelas, a gilded vase made for the Nasrid sultans under Muhammad the Fifth in the late thirteen hundreds, its neck ringed with gold script promising happiness and prosperity. It follows the vase through its years in the Alhambra's grandest halls, including the Hall of the Two Sisters, where generations of visitors assumed it held some protective or religious power. The guide asks what a closer look at its unglazed, channeled base would eventually reveal about its real purpose.
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