Bell tower at the Mesquita-Catedral.
Outside El Patio de las Naranjas.
Inside, looking at the same entrance.
There are a bunch of different kinds of columns (778 in total) because of the many additions done over the centuries.
Restoration of the main chapel.
VERY wide. 11 naves, I think.
Looking at the girls, you can get a sense of the grandeur.
This was where the Koran was kept when it was a mosque.
The ceiling right in front/above.
Gypsies. They're tricky ones. She wanted to take a photo for me...ha.
Sunset over the Mesquita.
Little patio restaurant in Cordoba. They're known for their patios.
Another view of the Mesquita from a patio.
Un-interesting picture, but just serves as a reminder that Cordoba has lots of patios and even does a patio festival.
Entrance to Cordoba, I think.
The city wasn't in very good shape.
Made in the 8th or 9th Century when the Arabs first settled in Cordoba.
Cathedral in Granada.
View of the Cathedral from an artisan alley.
Looking down an artisan alley.
A tap in a bar that the waiters refused to serve us and one even deleted a shot I took (grabbed my camera) because as my friend later told me, no pictures were allowed? They were jerks, We left.
Alhambra from Mirador del Colon.
Nope, don't know who they are.
It was really busy on the Mirador and it was great in the sun.
BIG hippie population lives in Granada. Still at el Mirador.
In a Mosque right near el Mirador. Despite being settled by Arabs for so long, there are not many Mosques in the area.
Men taking a break at a stoplight from practicing for carrying the HUGE statue float for Semana Santa.
Flamenco in Granada. Singers and dancers to the left.
You can see how close we are to them from the feet in the background. A leg un-crossing at the wrong time could be disastrous.
Yes, those are pots hanging in the cueva. I guess it's traditional decor.
Quick action sequence.
She even danced a bit of Flamenco. She's been at the job for a while, based on the pictures we saw of her hanging on the walls.
Men with long hair dance flamenco...
Alhambra at night from el Mirador. Sunset would have been best.
Beginning the tour of Alhambra.
I think the Christians put in two churches on the property.
Summer palace entrance.
View of the Nazaries Palace from the summer palace. Granada is to the right.
That's that same church on the left.
Inside the summer palace.
That white blob was a view from the summer palace of the city, but the exposures were too different to capture them both.
Nope, we're not in Rome but inside the palace Charles V built.
Now we're inside the Nazaries Palace. You had to get a reservation to see this and if you were even one minute late, you couldn't enter.
White blob=Granada. The vents are natural A/C--hot air escape through them. I wish our A/C was that pretty!
Colorful tiles and intricate carvings on the stone decorated the whole palace.
Took this for you, mom. Picture with patterns.
I was having fun with the reflections.
Ceilings are so neat here. That's wood up there.
We aoll practiced saying this phrase in Arabic, but I can't remember it now. It repeats over and over again.
Never seen anything like this ceiling decoration before.
The sidewalks/pedestrain streets were all like this, but different patterns depending on when they were built. The rocks all come from the rivers near the city.
