ALHAMBRA IS GREEN

Trees of the Alhambra have been threatened for years by the DED. In years 90 2,000 trees from this pest have been gradually sustuido by other species were lost mainly

The entire set of vegetation acts lung and carbon monoxide filter, thus protecting the monument from pollution, which in recent years has been reduced by the restrictions suffered traffic at the bottom. All this makes possible the existence of a microclimate conditions of humidity, temperature and luminusidad that the forest has changed, and these are much lower than those that would apply to the area without the presence of vegetation. But the exuberance of the forest would not be possible without water, in the monumental set is not only an aesthetic but essential for the survival of all vegetation sense and therefore the monument. Fountains, waterworks, streams, and even channeling groundwater is essential for the protection of all forest monument set

Sustanaible route around Nazari Palaces, Alhambra, Granada

Nazari Palaces are a palace complex, the residence of the kings of Granada. It beings to build Alhamar founder of the dynasty in the XIII century. These palaces enclosed within its walls refinement and the delicacy of the last Hispano-Arab governors of Al-Andalus, the Nazari. Three palaces form this complex:
  -The Mexuar
  -The Palace of Comares, or of Yusuf I
  -The Palace of the Lions, or of Mohammed V

We are going to enter leaving the left the "Patio de Machuca" towards Mexuar room, by which we enter them under a beautiful home build by Muhammad V. Then we eill see the small Patio Mexuar (also known as Fourth Gold), which served as liaison between the palace and Comares.
                                                   

Through a corridor, we reach to "Patio de los Arrayanes o de Comares" where we can enjoy the vegetation anround it, and then we get to the "Salón de los Embajadores" where the throne of the emir was. 

Finally, through a side door of the courtyard and a narrow and beautiful corridor, we reach the new Moorish palace: "Patio o Palacio de los Leones", the private residence of the emir whose quarters the royal harem was.