CityPoem Carved into a door of La Alhambra, in Granada, Spain.
The Alhambra (literally "the red one"; the complete name is "Qal'at al-Hambra", which means "The red fortress") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed), occupying a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada. CityPoems: already around 1360, when Alhambra near Granada was built, poems were integrated in the public realm. The walls of the Alhambra are full of calligraphic decoration, cursive and kufic writings with sentences such as "Only God is victor" (apparently by Zawi ben Zirí, founder of the Nasrid dynasty) and poems by three poets of the Court of Granada, Ibn al-Yayyab (1274-1349), Ibn al-Jatib (1313-1375) and Ibn Zamrak (1333-1393), who were secretaries of the royal chancellery and prime ministers. Among them, Ibn Zamrak is considered to be the most brilliant of the poets of the Alhambra.
Size: 5119px × 3413px
Location: La Alhambra, Granada, Spain, Europe
Photo credit: © Bill Heinsohn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: abstract, al-ahmar”, alhambra, arabesque, arcades, arch, architecture, art, basins, calligraphic, carve, carving, chambers, citypoem, close, close-, closeup, columnar, complex, composite, court, courtyard, cursive, decoration, decorative, detail, detailed, domical, door, dynasty, elaborate, elegance, engrave, etch, fancy, forms, fountains, geometrical, granada, heritage, holy, horizontal, interior, intricate, islamic, kufic, la, light-reflecting, monument, moorish, mosque, multifaceted, muslim, nasrid, official, ornamental, ornate, palace, paradise, pattern, plaster, poem, poems, poetry, quarters, relief, residential, romantic, room, royal, score, sculpt, sentences, series, showy, site”, skill, slice, spain, talent, tapestry, texts, water, whittle, wood, writings, yeseria, “ibn, “world
