What if a palace could glow? Not with lights, but with history. Right now, you’re looking at the Alhambra. Nearly 700 years old. And still stealing the show. As the sun dips low, warm gold washes over ...

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Once upon a time, Spain’s hilltop Alhambra palace glittered with gold. Over the centuries, though, the Islamic citadel’s ornate, gilded structures on its ceilings and elsewhere fell into disrepair, ...

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All new restaurants face obstacles, but Alhambra Palace has been besieged by problems since it opened in late April. Its daunting scale–24,000 square feet seating up to 1,400–and over-the-top decor ...

Canary- and azure-colored tiles sheathe the exterior walls in kaleidoscopes of geometric design. Courtyard fountains tinkle like the sound of doubloons. It is the Alhambra, palace of sultans and Spain ...

Bathhouses, tapas-hopping and flamenco: here's how to make the most of a short break in this Andalucian city. One of Granada's most stunning miradors (viewpoints) is the one onto the Alhambra palace ...

The Alhambra Palace was inaugurated in 1910 by the King of Spain Alfonso XIII. It was an avant-garde architectural gem at the time. The first iron structure in Andalusia, the hotel also had its own ...

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 ...