The drive from Castillo de Baños to Granada was very short. I found the campgound in Peligros easily and set up camp. It´s a beautiful little place built into a hill. First thing I did was book my entry to La Alhambra for today.
In the morning I took a bus into Granada and another little bus up to La Alhambra. Once there, I spent the next four hours just wandering around. It is far more incedible than I had ever thought. It feels almost like the Moors abandoned the site when it was conquered by Ferdinand and Isabel and it has sat there ever since just as they left it. It seems that Isabel wanted to keep the Moorish atmosphere and tried to restore the palaces to what they had been. La Alhambra was the last holdout of the Moors in Spain. I think it took ten years before it was actually taken, so the last sultan had let it run down quite a bit because he knew he was going to loose it.
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