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Testimony of Washington Irving who was dazzled by the Alhambra. Book Rich in descriptions, but with bad images. With the internet, images can be rescued with a quick search of the image, so the book has its very high value, because it is broad and well descriptive.Wikipedia 2023:Tales of the Alhambra (1832) is a collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories by American author Washington Irving (1783–1859) inspired by, and partly written during, his 1828 visit to the palace/fortress complex known as the Alhambra in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving travelled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as "a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen". Irving was preparing a book called "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada", a history of the years 1478–1492, and was continuing his research on the topic. He immediately asked the then-governor of the historic Alhambra Palace as well as the archbishop of Granada for access to the palace, which was granted because of Irving's celebrity status. Aid

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Author

Washington Irving

Publisher

Sleepy Hollow Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780912882482

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Humanities