WHS+-+Alhambra+Palance+in+Granada+(Spain)

====**What is a World Heritage Site? ** ==== ==== A world heritage site is a cultural or natural site, monument, city or geographical habitat that is deemed irreplaceable, and threatened ====

==== **What are the criteria UNESCO uses to select a World Heritage Site and why has this site been world heritage listed? ** ====

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A breif history of the World Heritage Site:
==== **This last fortress of the eleventh-century Ziridian rulers, was all that existed when the Nasrid ruler Ibn al-Ahmar made Granada his capital, but from its slightly red walls the top of the hill had already taken its name: //Al Qal'a al-Hamra// in Arabic means "the red fort". Ibn al-Ahmar rebuilt the Alcazaba and added to it the huge circuit of walls and towers which forms your first view of the castle.** ==== ==== **Within the walls he began creating a palace, which he supplied with running water by diverting the River Darro nearly 8km to the foot of the hill; water is an integral part of the Alhambra and this engineering feat was Ibn al-Ahmar's greatest contribution. The Palacios Nazaríes was essentially the product of his fourteenth-century successors, particularly Yusuf I and Mohammed V, who built and redecorated many of its rooms in celebration of his accession to the throne (in 1354) and the taking of Algeciras (in 1369).** ==== ==== **After their conquest of the city, Fernando and Isabel lived for a while in the Alhambra. They restored some rooms and converted the mosque but left the palace structure unaltered. As at Córdoba and Sevilla, it was Emperor Carlos V, their grandson, who wreaked the most insensitive destruction, demolishing a whole wing of rooms in order to build a Renaissance palace.** ==== ==== media type="youtube" key="zxMi5gh7wrc" height="349" width="425" align="center" ====

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