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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • The following inscription is written on the pendentives: ' There is no other help than the help that comes from God, the clement and merciful One' . The windows at the base of dome let a faint light filter through and illuminate the mocarabes

    • Hall of the Abencerrajes (Sala de los Abencerrajes); dome of mocarabes rests on eight pendentives of mocarabes
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • The Hall of the Mocarabes (Sala de los Mocarabes) is the simplest hall of the Palace of the Lions (Palacio de los Leones). It is near the old entrance to the palace and it was so called because of the vault of mocarabes that covered it, now...

    • Entryway to the Hall of the Mocarabes (Sala de los Mocarabes) with stalactite muqarnas under the arch
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • This large room (11 meters square), inside the Comares Tower, was an official reception hall, used for important state business

    • Entrance looking into the Hall of the Ambassadors (Salon de Embajadores); double arch connects with the Hall of the Boat (Sala de la Barca)
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • The pond divides the patio and receives its water from two fountains (one at each end of the pond). There are chambers on both sides of the patio and several porticoes on the shorter sides of it. These porticoes rest on columns with cubic capitals,...

    • Court of the Myrtles (Patio de los Arrayanes), viewed across the reflecting pond (34 m long)
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • It was also called Justice Hall (Sala de la Justicia)

    • East side of the Lion Courtyard, the Hall of the Kings (Sala de los Reyes); three porticoes with triple arches of mocarabes, decorated with carved rhombuses and supported by fine columns
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • It was also called Justice Hall (Sala de la Justicia)

    • East side of the Lion Courtyard, the Hall of the Kings (Sala de los Reyes); three porticoes with triple arches of mocarabes, decorated with carved rhombuses and supported by fine columns
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Name Generalife in Arabic translates ' the Architect' s Garden' . The palace and gardens were built during the reign of Muhammad III (1302-1309) and redecorated shortly after by Abu I-Walid Isma' il (1313-1324)

    • Court of la Acequia (Court of the Water Channel), Palace of the Generalife
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Gilded Room (Cuarto Dorado) is so called because of the painted Mudejar style of its coffered ceiling. It as built by order of Mohammed V and belongs to the Comares Palace (Palacio de Comares)

    • Gilded Room (Cuarto Dorado), painted Mudejar style coffered ceiling
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    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Following the model of Roman thermal baths, with various rooms for warm and cool baths and dressing. Some are very simple with horseshoe arches without decoration and vaults with star-shaped skylights, which were once closed with stained glass and...

    • Baths (Banos), to the east of Comares Palace; simple hall with star-shaped skylights
    • Archivision
    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Following the model of Roman thermal baths, with various rooms for warm and cool baths and dressing. Some are very simple with horseshoe arches without decoration and vaults with star-shaped skylights, which were once closed with stained glass and...

    • Baths (Banos), to the east of Comares Palace; simple hall with star-shaped skylights
    • Archivision
    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Alhambra Palace Complex

    • Following the model of Roman thermal baths, with various rooms for warm and cool baths and dressing. Some are very simple with horseshoe arches without decoration and vaults with star-shaped skylights, which were once closed with stained glass and...

    • Baths (Banos), to the east of Comares Palace; simple hall with star-shaped skylights
    • Archivision

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