The Alhambra was a palace built by Moorish leaders in the 14th century.
It was so beautiful that when the Catholics took over the area in the 15th century they decided to continue to use it instead of destroying it along with everything else.
They must have been really impressed, because it was a holy war and that text reads “there is no victor but Allah” over and over again.
They squeezed it in wherever they could fit a chisel.
Where the saying isn’t placed there are interesting geometric designs because they aren’t allowed to make images of animals or people according to the Koran.
The palace would have been even cooler back then because it was all brightly painted too. Only a bit of the paint remains, pretty impressive still for hundreds of year old paint.
Some ceilings were cooler than others.
Everything in the entire palace is symmetrical except for the bumps on this wall. This drove Kerri crazy. We still have no idea why this one spot has something asymmetrical.
Here’s some more fancy ceiling with some remaining paint.
These were tricky to take pictures of.
It looked pretty cool at night, but we did take the wrong camera because we weren’t thinking. The pictures still turned out okay.
