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Granada, present and bygone (1908)

Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946, Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine), 1867-1928 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 65

An illustration from Granada, present and bygone, 1908, leaf 65
ry department. He built amagnificent palace at Malaga, and a mosque on theAlhambra of which no trace remains. Thanks to thegeneral prosperity of the country, he was able todispose of wealth so enormous that his contemporariessupposed it to be produced by the transmutation ofmetals. Yet in his reign… … Gate of Las Granadas. Approach to the Alhambra 42 GRANADA astrous defeat of the Salado followed, and the Sultanof GranadS only obtained peace by surrenderingAlgeciras to the Castilians in 1348. Ten years laterhe followed his enemy, Alfonso XL, to the tomb.As he knelt at prayer in the little mosque…

Cano, Alonso, 1601-1667 · Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Architecture -- Spain Granada · Granada (Spain) -- Description and travel · Granada (Spain) -- History

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