Friday, 27 February 2015

The Alhambra!

We went to the Alhambra in Granada, and it was a thrilling experience.   The best part was the Nasrid Palace, a rambling series of exquisitely designed and decorated rooms dating from the 13th and 14th centuries.   The sheer inventiveness of the constantly varied patterns is overwhelming, and the notion of decorating the walls with such an excess of ornamentation is hard to comprehend.

I'll let the images speak for themselves:

Alhambra from a distance, with the Sierra Nevada in the background:




Interiors:





Details:














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