File:Moorish Era Arch - Flickr - Me in ME.jpg
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This arch is in the Generalife Palace and is part of the Alhambra complex in Granada, Spain. It is very intricate and also includes Arabic script that follow the border of the walls. It may be from the Koran or it may be poetry. I noticed when working on this photo that there is an image of a crown on the wall and I zoomed in on this in another photo that is in the comment section. The Palacio de Generalife, "Architect's Garden" was the summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus, now beside the city of Granada in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The palace and gardens were built during the reign of Muhammed II (1273-1302), Sultan of Granada, and later by Muhammed III (1302–1309). They were redecorated shortly after by Abu I-Walid Isma'il (1313–1324). Much of the garden is a recent reconstruction of dubious authenticity. Of the Generalife nothing now remains but some arcades and some large panels of arabesques, unfortunately plastered over with layers of whitewash that have been applied again and again with all the obstinacy of a dispiriting cleanliness. Little by little the delicate sculptures and the marvellous guilloches of this fairy-like architecture have been obliterated, filled up, and engulfed. What is at present nothing more than a faintly-vermiculated wall, was formerly open lace-work. [Wiikipedia] |
| Date | 8 October 2019, 23:50 (according to Exif data) |
| Source | Moorish Era Arch |
| Author | Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA |
| Flickr tags | alhambra, granada, spain, generalife, palace, arch, moors |
| Camera location |  | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap |  |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Me in ME at https://flickr.com/photos/12357841@N02/49527977912. It was reviewed on 20 August 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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