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Have you visited the Alhambra? Palace or city?? Arab or Muslim?? Do you think you know her?

The more you read, the more he studied, the more you think you know, the more you walk through the Alhambra, one realizes that just does not know anything about this … this wonderful place of fantasy, of dreams coming true. Last bastion of Eastern Europe, an eastern silks and spices, luxury, sophistication exaggerated that eventually provoked its decline and disappearance. Circumstances that led to the final blow to complete the Reconquista, as expected and despite what most claims brought so much glory to Spain, making this “Empire on which the sun never set” … Let’s complex, progressive ones obsolete who deny our past …

The wonderful imperial palace of Charles I of Spain and Charles V as Emperor of the Holy Roman-Empire, much maligned by many, pure Renaissance, so different, but no less beautiful, with its facade in rustic cushion, round yard as if it was a large Roman amphitheater, unfortunately for him, is next to her brother Nazari Palace with its courtyard the delicate and almost ephemeral Lions.

The Christian presence is evident in the plot that subsequently occupy the medina Hispano sample of this presence are the church of San Vicente visigotica consecrated as such on January 22 of the year 596, adapted as a mosque during the Moorish period, returning again to its original use as a church with the title of St. Mary of the Incarnation after the reconquest the January 2, 1492, establishing himself as cathedral on January 6 of that year, and the former convent of San Francisco where the Catholic Kings were buried before its final transfer to the Royal Chapel.

What secrets we hide the Alhambra!!