Puerta de la Justicia

This guide to the Puerta de la Justicia in Granada opens with a local legend: a carved hand and key have faced each other across this gateway for nearly seven hundred years, and the day the hand finally grabs the key, Granada says, the Alhambra will fall. It traces the gate to Sultan Yusuf the First, who had it built in thirteen forty-eight as the ceremonial entrance to his fortress-palace, and to the deliberately bent passage inside, designed to slow any attacker headed for the palace. Look above the inner archway for the carved Arabic inscription before you head up toward the palace itself.