The Alhambra, Granada

I have at last been able to get back to scanning in a few more Spanish photographs, some of which are shown here. More are in my gallery at Smugmug and I will be adding more over the next few weeks.




















Perhaps the best known place to visit in Granada is the Alhambra Palace. It is certainly impressive and spectacular, but it comes at a price in terms of having to share the experience with many other tourists, so much so that on occasion it is very difficult to appreciate the beauty of the place. It also makes taking photographs less than easy as there is almost invariably a body in the way.




















Built inside the Palace is the Palace of King Carlos V who, it seems, had tired of the Moorish architecture and styled his pad on the Italian Renaissance period and used an architect who had trained under Michelangelo.














This view from the Alhambra looks across the gypsy quarter of the Albaicin which is situated below the Palace and above Granada. You can walk up to the Alhambra through this district, although you might want to save your energies for the considerable trek through the Palace.




When Mohammed V succeeded his father Yusuf I, he did more than just finishing the alterations that his father had started. He actually started building what would become his great work of art, the marvelous legacy he left us in the Alhambra: the Palace of the Lions (Palacio de los Leones).