Granada: Present And Bygone (1908) - Softcover

Calvert, Albert Frederick

9781165384686: Granada: Present And Bygone (1908)

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ISBN 10: 116538468X ISBN 13: 9781165384686

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010

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Granada: Present and Bygone is a historical and cultural guidebook written by Albert Frederick Calvert in 1908. The book provides a detailed description of the city of Granada, Spain, including its history, architecture, and cultural traditions. Calvert delves into the city's rich past, exploring its Islamic roots and the influence of the Moors on the city's development. He also provides a comprehensive overview of the city's art, literature, and music, highlighting the works of famous Granadan poets and artists. The book is illustrated with numerous photographs and maps, providing readers with a visual understanding of the city's layout and landmarks. Overall, Granada: Present and Bygone is an informative and engaging read for anyone interested in the history and culture of this beautiful Spanish city.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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No city in Spain possesses so much fascination for the foreigner as the old Moorish capital of Granada. Toledo boasts a greater antiquity, Seville may flaunt a larger share of sensuous beauty, but the mysterious charm of the City of the Moor is irresistible. Few that set foot in the halls of the Alhambra escape the spell that legend has woven about the palace the spell which inspired the pen of Washington Irving and by him commimicated to his A nglo-S axon contemporaries. Since Prescott revealed Granada as a second Troy and glorified the campaigns of the Catholic Sovereigns into a fifteenth-century I liad, the keenest rays of criticism and the coldest surveys have failed to dispel the glamour which makes the city the Mecca of every pilgrimage beyond the Pyrenees. To the Spaniard Granada is an epitome of seven centuries of national aspiration and endeavour. It is at once the coping stone of the edifice of Spanish nationality, the noblest monument of a vanished civilisation, the high-water mark of Moslem
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