The last redoubt of Moorish culture in Spain, Granada is fabled for its exquisite palace-fortress, the Alhambra, one of the earth’s architectural wonders and the biggest surviving medieval Islamic palace in the world. The Alhambra well symbolizes Granada's story and significance, having been brought to its peak of elegance and splendor in the 14th and 15th centuries when Granada was the flourishing capital of the last Moorish kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula. Finally, in 1492, the Christian Reconques stretched here too, led by Spain's ‘Catholic Monarchs', Isabel and Fernando, and bringing with it the churches, monasteries and other monuments that also contribute to the city's beauty and atmosphere today. From their medieval heyday Granada and the Alhambra slipped into centuries of decline, which only started to be reversed by the interest taken in them by 19th-centuryRomantics such as American writer Washington Irving, author of the celebrated Tales of the Alhambra. The Romantics' interest sparked early tourism here.

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