Friday, October 12, 2007

Back from our trip to the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco

Beautiful ceiling details showing the strong Moorish influence in the architecture of the Palacios Nazarias in Granada.
Granada from the Alhambra - a palace, a citadel, a fortress and home of the Nasrid Sultans, high government officials, servants of the court and elite soldiers of the Nasrid Dynasty (1238-1492), the last Islamic sultanate in the lberian Peninsula.