Word: alhambra
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...Spain between their initial conquest and their final expulsion -- was, of course, architecture. Of the 4,000 or so "castles in Spain" that still stand (military buildings of all kinds, from fortified palaces to watchtowers), fully a quarter were built by the Arabs. Several of their buildings, from the Alhambra, or "red castle," in Granada to the Great Mosque of Cordoba to the towering Giralda in Seville, are among the key works of world architecture...
...stucco domes, the mind-defeating intricacy of the mosaics with their cordons de la eternidad (literally, "ribbons of eternity") interlacing in continuous patterns: such things cannot be crated, shipped across the Atlantic and put in a museum. One fragment of a 14th century mosaic dado from the Alhambra, however beautiful, is only a detail and cannot convey the overwhelming effect of the patterning on the palace's actual walls. Thus, although this exhibition looks fine inside the pyramid of the Met's Lehman Pavilion, its sum effect does not begin to equal the setting in which the Spanish public...
These travels do nothing, however, to shake hisextraordinary love for the community in which hehas spent nearly 40 years, he says. "I sat down towrite a poem at the Alhambra in Granada, and whatI wrote about was the students of Dunster House...
Dike, who was a member of the History Department from 1970 to 1979, was the first Mellon Professor of African History at Harvard. While he taught here he was who chairman of the Committee on African Studies. He was president of Alhambra State University when he died...
...Alhambra, Calif...