This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...and upon the plateau, the Alcazaba and the Alhambra proper. The Alcazaba, the oldest part of the castle, occupies the western point. An outwork defends the projection, separated from the body of the fortress by a strong wall flanked with towers, among them the tower of La Vela. The Alcazaba shows close analogies with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...and upon the plateau, the Alcazaba and the Alhambra proper. The Alcazaba, the oldest part of the castle, occupies the western point. An outwork defends the projection, separated from the body of the fortress by a strong wall flanked with towers, among them the tower of La Vela. The Alcazaba shows close analogies with the famous Chateau Gaillard (1197-1198), built by Richard Coeur de Lion on the Seine above Rouen, in which the scientific principles of Oriental defence were applied for the first time in the West. There were no relations of any sort between the Musulman engineers of the Alcazaba and Richard Cceur de Lion, who, upon his return from the Holy Land, imitated the karaks of the Crusaders in the Chateau Gaillard; but they were the disciples of masters brought up in the same traditions, and this they demonstrated by giving the Alcazaba and the Chateau Gaillard the same arrangements in general and in particular, and in multiplying, as if of set purpose, the same characteristic features. When the power of the Nasserids was consolidated/and after Yusuf I. (1335-1354) had built a palace outside the Alcazaba, the fortress of Mohammed became in its turn an outwork, and the mam building extended over the whole plateau. In addition to the palace mentioned above, which extended along the north-east front, Yusuf completed the actual enceinte, including the Gate of Justice and the Gate of Wine. To his successor Mohammed V. (1354-1391) we owe the Patio de los Arrayanes (Myrtles), or de la Alberca (the Fountain), and the sumptuous palace of which the Court of Lions is the centre. Finally, the interior decoration of the Tower of the Infantes (south-western extremity of the north-east front), where the first traces of decadence manifest themselves, was begun under M...
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