Sunday, March 17, 2013

Day 6: The red fortress

ALHAMBRA HERE I COME.
The one in Granada, not Chicago.
You want to see gorgeousness AND walk over 24 acres of land?!
I can point you in the right direction!(:
This place is really old.
Like REALLY old.
It was a city apparently and had the most amazing gardens ever!
To be honest it reminded me of this trail I used to go walking on  when I was younger and live in CT.
It was gorgeous.
And totally worth the walk.
Here are some pics
 So as we were touring the old city, we got to learn about some of it's history:
The Alhambra was named because of its reddish walls (in Arabic, («qa'lat al-Hamra'» means Red Castle). But Arabic? In Spain? Porque?
Well the Southern part of Spain was over ruled by the Moors (basically some Muslims), and the King had built this Castle city where people lived within the fortress. 

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