★ UNESCO
World Heritage
World Heritage
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Where in the world
Spain
The site
The palace-city of the Nasrid sultans, raised on the Sabika hill above Granada: a military alcazaba, palaces of carved stucco, cedar ceilings and glazed tile, and the famed courts of the Lions and the Myrtles, where water is used as architecture. It was the seat of the last Muslim dynasty of the Iberian Peninsula and the final stronghold of al-Andalus, surrendered to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Left half-forgotten for centuries, it was rediscovered by Romantic travellers who made it the symbol of a vanished Andalusi world.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Nasrid
- types
- Palace · Fortress
- built
- 1,238 CE — 1,358 CE
- occupied
- 1,238 CE — 1,492 CE
- country
- Spain
See it in 3D
Notable finds
Renowned pieces unearthed at Alhambra — and where they are today
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Alhambra
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Saad Baggas Boutarbpuchborn heresultan of GranadaFB⚱
Fatima bint al-Ahmarrests hereNasrid princess of GranadaPD†
Pedro de Dueñasdied hereSpanish missionaryPictured through the ages
Artworks that portray Alhambra
