The antiquaries of Granada pronounce it the entrance to that quarter of the royal residence where the king's bodyguards were stationed. According to Swinburne the traveller, it was originally the great gate of entrance. It is famous in the neighborhood as the scene of strange apparitions and Moorish enchantments. The gateway is in the centre of what was once an immense pile, called the Tower of the Seven Floors (la Torre de los Siete Suelos). There was a mystery about it, and it had never been opened within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
I inquired for some time in vain for such a portal at length my humble attendant, Mateo Ximenes, said it must be one closed up with stones, which, according to what he had heard from his father and grandfather, was the gateway by which King Chico had left the fortress. Consintio en allo el Rey Fernando, y des de aquel tiempo no solamente no se abrio la puerta sino tambien se construyo junto a ella fuerte bastion.- MORERI'S Historical Dictionary. Pidio esta principe como por merced, y en memoria de tan importante conquista, al que queda**e siempre cerrada esta puerta. Fernando, y le entrego la ciudad con el castillo. * Ay una puerta en la Alhambra por la qual salio Chico Rey de los Moros, quando si rindio prisionero al Rey de Espana D. His prayer, according to ancient chronicles, was complied with, through the sympathy of isabella, and the gate was walled up.* With the melancholy caprice of a broken spirit, or perhaps with some superstitious feeling, he requested of the Catholic monarchs that no one afterwards might be permitted to pa** through it. I next sought the gate by which Boabdil made his last exit from the Alhambra, when about to surrender his capital and kingdom.
As I paced the gallery, my imagination pictured the anxious queen leaning over the parapet listening, with the throbbings of a mother's heart, to the last echoes of the horses' hoofs as her son scoured along the narrow valley of the Darro. From this gallery, it is presumed, the queen lowered her son with the scarfs of herself and her female attendants during the darkness of the night to the hillside, where some of his faithful adherents waited with fleet steeds to bear him to the mountains.īetween three and four hundred years have elapsed, yet this scene of the drama remains almost unchanged. A narrow stone gallery, with a low parapet, extends along three sides of the tower just below the windows, but at a considerable height from the ground.
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The external walls of these chambers are of prodigious thickness, pierced with small windows secured by iron bars. In the Tower of Comares, immediately under the Hall of Amba**adors, are two vaulted rooms, separated by a narrow pa**age these are said to have been the prisons of himself and his mother, the virtuous Ayxa la Horra indeed, no other part of the tower would have served for the purpose. While my mind was still warm with the subject of the unfortunate Boabdil, I set forth to trace the mementos of him still existing in this scene of his sovereignty and misfortunes. Washington Irving - Mementos of Boabdil lyrics
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