This is one of two of the largest, most complete, and most ornate curtains to survive from the 1300s when it presumably hung in the royal Alhambra Palace in Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in ...

Aesthetics aside, to really appreciate the Alhambra is to understand its history. The palace was primarily built between the 13th and 14th centuries by the Moorish Nasrid Dynasty (though small ...

Built on the ruins of a pre-existing citadel, the Alhambra rose in the 13 th century under the Nasrid dynasty ... the fall of the Nasrid kingdom, the palace complex continued to evolve and ...