Tuesday, April 3, 2012

General Life --La Alhambra


La Alhambra is a Moorish Castle that was built in about the 10th Century. Granada was the last city that the Christian Monarch's needed to take control from the Arabs inorder to conquer ALL of Spain. This finally happend when Boabdil (the boy king) gave the keys to the city to King Ferdinan and Queen Isabella on January 2, 1492. It is said that Boabdil's mother said to him as they walked away from Granada, looking back over his should for one last look, she said, "Do not weep as a woman for that which you could not defend as a man."

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