Charles Morris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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The map of Spain shows the present province of Granada as a narrow district bordering on the Mediterranean Sea.
But the Moorish kingdom covered a wider space, spreading over the present provinces of Malaga and Almeria.
and occupying one of the richest sections of Spain.
It was a rock bound region, in every direction ran sierras, or rugged mountain chains, so rocky and steep as to make the kingdom almost impregnable.
Yet within their sterile confines lay numbers of deep and rich valleys, prodigal in their fertility.
In the centre of the kingdom arose its famous capital, the populous and beautiful city of Granada, standing in the midst of a great vaga or plain, one hundred miles and more in circumference, and encompassed by the snowy mountains of the Sierra Nevada.
The seventy thousand houses of the city spread over two lofty hills and occupied the valley between them, through which ran the waters of the Duro.
On one of these hills stood the Al Cazaba, a strong fortress.
On the other rose the famous Alhambra, a
A royal palace and castle, with space within its confines for forty thousand men, and so rare and charming in its halls and courts, its gardens and fountains, that it remains today a place of pilgrimage to the world for lovers of the beautiful in architecture.
And from these hills the city between showed no less attractive with its groves of citron, orange and pomegranate trees, its leaping fountains, its airy minarets, its mingled aspect of crowded dwellings and verdant gardens.
High walls, three leagues in circuit, with twelve gates and a thousand and thirty towers girded it round, beyond which extended the Vega, a vast garden of delight, to be compared only with the famous plain of Damascus.
Through it the Cainille wound in silvery curves, its waters spread over the plain in thousands of irrigating streams and rills.
Blooming gardens and fields of waving grain lent beauty to the plain.
Orchards and vineyards clothed the slopes of the hills.
In the orange and citron groves the voice of the nightingale made the night's musical.
In short, all was so beautiful below and soft and serene above, that the moors seemed not without warrant for their fond belief that paradise lay in the skies overhanging this happy plain.
But alas for Granada, war hung around its borders, and the blare of the trumpet and clash of the sword were ever familiar sounds within its confines.
Christian kingdoms surrounded it, whose people envied the Muslims this final abiding place on the soil of Spain.
Hostilities were ceaseless on the borders, plundering forays were the delight of the Castilian cavaliers and the Moorish horsemen.
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