Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Alhambra Palace Complex

Collection: 
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title: 
Alhambra Palace Complex
Alternate Title: 
Palaces of the Alhambra and Generalife
Image View: 
Detail, carved relief covering wall in the Gilded Room (Cuarto Dorado)
Creator: 
unknown (Islamic and Spanish)
Location: 
site: Granada, Granada, Spain
Location Note: 
Andalusia; Calle Real Alhambra
GPS: 
+37.176944-3.59
Date: 
9th century-1492 (inclusive)
Cultural Context: 
Islamic; Spanish
Style Period: 
Mudéjar; Nasrid
Work Type 1: 
historic site
Work Type 2: 
royal palace
Work Type 3: 
castle (fortification)
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
stone; polychrome glazed ceramic tile; terra cotta roof tile
Technique: 
carving (processes); fabrication attributes: ceramics; prefabrication
Measurements: 
142,000 m2 (area)
Description: 
The palaces of the Alhambra and Generalife form the most important architectural ensemble to survive from the Nasrid period (1232-1492). The walled Alhambra city which sits on a steep hill, comprised the Alcazaba (alqa?aba: "fortress"), palaces, mansions, two mosques, baths (?ammams), an industrial zone with tanneries, a mint, kilns, workshops, and some adjacent royal estates such as the Generalife. The Generalife was built on ascending terraces. The sovereign reached the Generalife's royal mansion, the Dar al-Mamlaka al-Sa'ida ("royal house of felicity"), from the Alhambra's Puerta de Hierro, also built by Muhammad II. He ascended through orchards, crossed a first courtyard and entered the second through a guarded south portico, to ascend to a vestibule with a structural bench and up a steep staircase to the Patio de la Acequia. Gardens and fountains are interspersed throughout the palace complex. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Seven
Identifier: 
1A2-S-G-AP-A11
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.