. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. d mirror of Isabella; and the casketwhich contained the jewels that the Queen offered inpledge to secure funds for Columbus. Most precious of all the relics, said the sacristan,is the handkerchief with which the blessed SantaVeronica wiped the sweat from the Saviors brow onthe road to Calvary. This bears the impression of theSaviors face. The greatest point of interest in Granada, perhaps inall Spain, is, of course, the Alhambra. This is the namegiven to a collection of buildings located on an elevationthat overlooks the city. These
. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. d mirror of Isabella; and the casketwhich contained the jewels that the Queen offered inpledge to secure funds for Columbus. Most precious of all the relics, said the sacristan,is the handkerchief with which the blessed SantaVeronica wiped the sweat from the Saviors brow onthe road to Calvary. This bears the impression of theSaviors face. The greatest point of interest in Granada, perhaps inall Spain, is, of course, the Alhambra. This is the namegiven to a collection of buildings located on an elevationthat overlooks the city. These palaces on the heightswere for many centuries the dwelling places of theMoorish kings, surrounded bs their nobles, retainers,and guardsmen. They were also the repositories inwhich were stored the immense treasure accumulatedfrom the forays of the Moors upon the Christians ofnorthern Spain, and from the sacking of Christian palaces of the rulers and the treasure within wereprotected by great citadels and by stout walls whichencircled the DECORATED WITH ARABESQUES AND STORIED WITH INSCRIPTIONS. (49) 50 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. In[the^latter part of the fifteenth century, after a longstruggle, the Moorish power was overthrown by KingFerdinand, and since then Granada has been a Spanishcity. Columbus was present at the court of the Spanishsovereign when the capitulation of Granada occurredin April, 1492, and within two weeks after the surrenderof the city received his commission to sail in search of anew world. Washington Irvings description of the entrance of theconquering Spaniards into the Alhambra after the
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