{"id":358,"date":"2018-03-22T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2018-06-06T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:47:11","slug":"alhambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/alhambra\/","title":{"rendered":"Alhambra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let me get this out of the way first.\u00a0 Yes, there were hordes and yes there was weather.\u00a0 Cold weather as in really, really cold.\u00a0 Like it snowed later, I kid you not.\u00a0 And the Alhambra is an outdoor attraction. <\/span><\/span>It was worth it though.\u00a0 A truly amazing place; it is immense.\u00a0 The palaces, terraces, and gardens built in the 1200 and 1300\u2019s by the founder of the Nasrid dynasty, the Alhambra, literally meaning \u2018red castle\u2019, is a stunning architectural masterpiece sitting atop a hill overlooking Granada.\u00a0 That the initial castle\/fortress, the\u00a0 Alcazaba, was built 400 years before the palaces is even more impressive.\u00a0 That\u2019s like, 1200 years old!\u00a0 Over the centuries it became more integrated and today the public (AKA hordes) can roam over this vast area of roughly 35 acres.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We probably didn\u2019t see the gardens at their best.\u00a0 They are beautiful and would look spectacular later in the spring.\u00a0 The palaces (9 of them) are an architectural marvel and every room has carvings, motifs and spectacular tile work with vaulted ceilings of wood and mortar carvings looking like stalactites in a cave.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty incredible.\u00a0 Teresa took lots of pictures, like about 400 or so.\u00a0 We can\u2019t post them all here obviously and they wouldn\u2019t do the Alhambra justice.\u00a0 Neither will yakking about it anymore as I couldn\u2019t possibly give it a proper description.\u00a0 So, you\u2019ll have to come over and see it yourself.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be worth it, I promise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for me today.\u00a0 You got off easy\u2026I could have titled this \u2018Alhordebra\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Let me get this out of the way first.\u00a0 Yes, there were hordes and yes there was weather.\u00a0 Cold weather as in really, really cold.\u00a0 Like it snowed later, I kid you not.\u00a0 And the Alhambra is an outdoor attraction. It was worth it though.\u00a0 A truly amazing place; it is immense.\u00a0 The palaces, terraces, and gardens built in the 1200 and 1300\u2019s by the founder of the Nasrid dynasty, the Alhambra, literally meaning \u2018red castle\u2019, is a stunning architectural masterpiece sitting atop a hill overlooking Granada.\u00a0 That the initial castle\/fortress, the\u00a0 Alcazaba, was built 400 years before the palaces is even more impressive.\u00a0 That\u2019s like, 1200 years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}