Nasrid Palaces

This guide to the Nasrid Palaces in Granada retraces the rebuke Boabdil's mother Ayxa is said to have given him as he looked back at these walls one last time. It leads into the Comares Tower's Hall of the Ambassadors, the throne room where Nasrid sultans received foreign envoys for two centuries and where Boabdil's council argued through the night over surrender. A separate story places Christopher Columbus in these same rooms that same year, pressing his case for a westward voyage. Look up at the carved stucco and the honeycombed ceiling as you take in the throne room.