Granada

Granada, the city of the Alhambra. Interestingly enough Granada was ruled by the Moors until 1492, the same year Columbus went in search of a western route to China, but instead got twarted by a pesky landmass. Silly Chris.

This is a view of the hills from the Alhambra.

This is some of the ornamentation in the buildings. You can still see the paint, which is pretty cool.

This is in the courtyard of the main Palace of the Alhambra. The Alhambra as a whole is a, well, I'd go with small fortified city. Kinda. It's a Palace and gardens and a collection of other buildings. If you look carefully the water surface belies the fact that everything looks warm and beautiful and sunny.

This is me in the gardens in front of a giant wisteria. Although it is not the largest wisteria that I saw whilst in Spain.

This is a view of the Jarden de Machuca. Part of the Alhambra Palace proper. Those are orange trees in there.

This is a few from the Alhambra towards the coast. I don't think you can actually see the water though, it's a long way off. But all the gardens look so lush and green and the sky looks so lazy. It just makes me want to take a nap.

This is a garden path in the Architect's Garden at the Alhambra.

Doesn't that look like a postcard. But I was actually there. Yup, took that shot myself. All of these actually. Jealous yet?

I apologize for the gloating. It would have been nice to have company. This is a shot of a tower in the Alhambra, from another tower.

Ooooh, these are cool. No, it's not a maze. But its aMAZing. hehheeee. No, it's the bases of walls that were once a ghetto inside the Alhambra fortifications. The rooms are sooo small. But each of these buildings potentially had two more floors made of rickety wood. There's also a well at the other end, which still has green stuff growing from it, so it probably still has water. I'm actually surprised to see that these people had stone floors.

More Alhambra.

This is NOT the Alhambra. This is one side of the Cathedral in Granada. I like the shape of the street lamps (the square-y glowing things). The cathedral was cool inside too, but I went in right as they were closing and actually got locked in, which kinda scared me. But I wasn't alone and the person locking up shook his head at us and then let us out. Thank goodness. I don't want to get locked in a cold stone cathedral all alone all night.

Next stop: Valencia.