The hidden world beneath the ancient Alhambra fortress - BBC REEL 

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@@meryem9277 in the levant as well

@@samnatt248 the levant has a completely different style. It does not ressemble the Maghrebi style It's a nice mixture of byzantine and persian architecture tho

@@gymrat5014 look at the Dome of the Rock, or Damascene Arabesque. The Arabs of the Levant are great architects, look at Madain Saleh and Petra. The first Arab settlers in Spain came from Palestine, Jordan and Syria. The Palestinians for instance were settled in Sidonia and Zaragoza. The first governor of Zaragoza was Lakmide Palestinian himself, Ayub Al Lakhmy. Calatayud, a town in Spain, was named after him.

@@samnatt248 I did not say it's not beautiful. I said it's not the same style at all. The Arab style in Andalusia is madinat al zahra while Granada and the Alhambra palace is a moorish architecture specific to Andalusia and the Western Maghreb(Western Algeria and Morocco) There's no plaster work zelij or Ceder work in Islamic buildings of the Levant which is the case in Sevilla Granada Fez Marrakech and Tlemcen. So saying it's Arab style while it was invented after the Andalusians and Berbers kicked the Arabs out after the berber revolt and the fall of the ummayade dynasty is ungenuine and borderline cultural appropriation

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@Rohan Brady Instablaster :)

You are absolutely right. We only been in Granada three times. That is way too little

It's a shame how some people from you city can be racists...

@@jabohonu bruh racist are eveywhere, and granada is very multicultural, i just know its less racist than average. Sorry about your experience tho

thanks to Islam and Muslims. before Andalus Gernada people didn't even know how to shower and clean themselves.

Pictures, description, and videos don’t do it justice- it’s extraordinarily awe-inspiring in person.

Have you been to the palace in Ronda?

@@asparadog not yet, it’s on my must visit list.

Granada is the last Muslim-ruled kingdom in Iberia

It's the moroccan architecture

You should understand the islam before the discover alhamra

It's the moroccan architecture

Read "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving

@@lailaabir8698 its Andalusian architecture

was made by muslim destroyed by catholic

Hi Margaret, a Canadian here who lived in Fuengirola from 1977 to 86, I loved taking visitors up Grenada, the Alhambra I believe the most impressive examples of Islamic architecture in Europe. The majestic manner in which it sits on that hill seems to magically transport you back to medieval times.

@@charlesbourque6542 hi..Charles I totally agree. Very impressive. Xx

The fact that you expect God to return your glory to you is exactly why you will never get it back. Work hard instead of wishing.

@@AleaRandomAm hhhh me I can't do nothing in a Men's world. A brutal word they created. Men are obligated not women. Use brain

@@AleaRandomAm beside what can a simple woman like me do. Think before your act. Don't act your smart

ليس العرب الذين بنوه بل المور الامازيغ وقالها بنفسه

@@dreem3681 لم أرى إلا أبيات الشعر العربي فقط على جدران الحمراء لماذا لم تكن هناك كتابات للبربر

That cities is exist before Islam Arab came to Iberia. Just saying.

@@PraiseworthyNobleman yep, and were jewels for the civilization

@@PraiseworthyNobleman cities existed before Romans and visgoths came, what’s your point?

@@TheIraqiforce just saying

@@izxov Alright don’t get too cocky about islam this is Not a religious debate. Respect everyone else! Unfortunately all comes to an end right. The islamic Alhambra was conquered by the Catholic Monarchs.

In my ass spain wasn't ruled by arabs

@@helliswar oh ok .read about the Umayyad state. And not only Spain, but France as well. that family come from macca in arabia

@@izxov read ☝️

@@alwssofy7748 facebook.com/100582508316692/posts/249599936748281/

@@helliswar do you even know what moor means? Guess what. It was not what the 'moors' called themselves, but what the European Christians did (who fought them). You should stop forming your identity based on what Europeans tell you, for starters. Plus your statement show arrogance coupled with ignorance.

Agreed would really love to see one I'm really fascinated about the life in andalucia

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@@ignacioheredia9599 thank you :).

@@arrienl6372 it's a pleasure. I have the book guide at detail. ¡What a Stunning walk with this book that open to your eyes this plaster book on the Alhambra halls and walls!

Exactly my thoughts.

Haha yes! It was good. I liked it.

lmao I thought everyone knew there were tunnels because in the drama Hyunbin went down there 😂

@@ieroine LMAO

was made by muslim destroyed by catholic

It is a beautiful place and so are the gardens surrounding the Albumbra.

Me too, some day!

Iv been. Def worth a visit.

what is Islamic architecture? how architecture can have a religion?

@@aexeastudio7426 it’s a type of architecture that was developed in Islamic Middle East and was very associated with Islam that most of mosques and palaces were constructed with what they call Islamic architecture 🕌☪️

@@Kosheon that type of Architecture was developed in Persia, not in the middle east, Arab Muslim used to make building in simple cubical shape before they took over Persia and adopted its architecture

@@aexeastudio7426 i agree with you but we can’t ignore the fact that they changed a bit of the Persian architecture and aded to it some Arabic and Turkish kind of design

@@Kosheon yes it was kind of like a mix

Yes quite a few South American shrubs

Possibly was an Iberian muslim architect and not ethically Arab. By that time, most of the Andalucian population had converted to Islam. Muhammad ibn Nasr, the ruler who had the Alhambra built had red hair and was known for this.

@@perik7124 but alot of it was inspired by the bangdad style

@@perik7124 whatever brings u comfort 😂

@@perik7124Spain never saw such Architecture before Arabs arrived, not even after they left. It is unlikely the Architects were spanish

​@@perik7124his family came from an Arab tribe 😊

Honestly, the Korean dramas just keep getting better and better.

It's the moroccan architecture

@@lailaabir8698 لا ليست مغربية الاندلس لم تكن تحت حكم المغاربة بل كانت تحت حكم العرب الامويين امتداد لدولتهم الاموية 🇸🇦من الحجاز

@@lailaabir8698 The complex was begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the first Nasrid emir and founder of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state of Al-Andalus. The Nasrids are Arabs from the hijaz.

@@lailaabir8698 The complex was begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the first Nasrid emir and founder of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state of Al-Andalus. The Nasrids are Arabs from the hijaz.

@@usc326 دولة بني امية كانت في الشام و ليس الحجاز

English??

@@brambakker1939 she loves the Alhambra. She lives in Madrid and her dream is to move there so that she can see the Alhambra every day

@@LindaC616 thanks!!!🙂🙂

@@brambakker1939 yw!

Lindo serie regresar al pasado verdad y ver como era la gente antes y después de la conquista por los Reyes Catolicos. Un cambio brutal. Pero la esencia del palacio es el mismo, me encantaria conocerle despues de ver la serie ‘Isabel’ me envolvi tanto en la historia que me enamoro todos esos castillos antiguos 😀 vestidos y mas...

When London was small Village. -Lawrence of Arabia

The time when muslims rule the spain..

@@Azharudheen321 And Portugal

@@robespierre466 Portugal was never ruled by Muslims! Portugal emerged as a Christian kingdom in the mid-1100s, out of a county created in 868 on Christian lands, the County of Portucale. By the end of the XII century, most of the lands that were to become part of that recently-founded kingdom had been liberated from the Moors, with the exception of the Algarve, which was finally freed of the Moors in 1239! Get your facts right!!

@@Azharudheen321 Spain did not exist when the moors invaded.

The ending to that show was bad.

was made by muslim destroyed by catholic

You know that Versailles is in Europe, don't you?

There are many iconic monuments built by all cultures

The most beautiful buildings were built by the Church. St. Peters, Notre Dame, Versailles etc

@@danielandres1579 Wrong, Versailles is a palace, it was built by the monarchy.

@@danielandres1579 Nope. If you were to ask anyone what is the most beautiful man-made structure in the world, the overwhelming universal answer would be the Taj Mahal. Once again, built by muslims with the most exquisite intricate designs, inspired by their faith. Al Hambra in Spain. Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. These places are the most visited tourist places in these countries as people from all over the world marvel at the muslim-inspired constructions all of which have an undeniable link to the muslim faith. The internal inspiring the external.

Yes! I have an old edition that contains photos

@@LindaC616 Mine has black and white illustrations from a later German reprinting.

@@shadowjack8 also cool. Are they very detailed? (I'm thinking of the room they showed with the text on the walls) And are they limited to the building, or did they use human figures?

@@LindaC616 It has been a while since I got to the end of a book and wanted more. If you can, find a copy with illustrations, especially if they are older engravings.

@@shadowjack8 I'll check for that, thanks for the recommendation!

Don't worry it's been there for a few hundred years....

There is a lot of security, even police inside. There are some bad tourists but La Alhambra is very well taken care of :)

Yes along with the Sistine chapel

@@popefrancis8153 excuse me....is this your majesty real Pope Francis ? Txs.....

You ARE WRONG My friend She NEVER said that quote... .....

@@westwild75 what your prove?

@@spymasterk4873 ask charLe....

@@westwild75 who the hell is charLe

@@Kosheon none of ur business....

It's the moroccan architecture

@@lailaabir8698 The complex was begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the first Nasrid emir and founder of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state of Al-Andalus. The Nasrids are Arabs from the hijaz.

​@@AliAbrahemNasrids are zenetes from Morocco, they even sent a letter to the marinid king of Morocco back then stating they are willing to return to the land of their ancestors.

@@lailaabir8698 It is the granadian architecture, Granade was an independent kingdom, not part of morocco.

@@aghilassizm Granade kingdom was an independent kingdom populated by hispanian converted to islam and governed by nasrid, a dynasty with arab origin [they descended of Al Azd tribe]

the guides point them out and tell you all about them whilst you are there.

Please don't confuse Arabs with Muslims, most of that ancient culture was made by local Iberians converted to Islam, not people from Arabia. The Arabs and North Africans were a ruling minority. The vast majority of the population were Iberian Muslims. I hope this clarifies a little bit more. Greetings.

Arabs didn't leave ANYTHING in Andalucia, it's the MOORS = NORTH AFRICAN = AMAZIGHS North Africa and Iberia are neighbours and they are even blood relative since the beginning of history way before Islam what does Arabia have to do with anything? Arabs are Asians.

@Fady Al qaisy Arabs were not a majority, just the ruling elite, that's why the language spoken was Arabic. For example, if you go to Jamaica today you will hear English spoken... But Jamaicans are not English. The language doesn't make the people. And the Islamic architecture in Iberia is very peculiar, it has differences with other Islamic styles around the world. This is because it was blending the new Muslim art with old Iberian traditions like Roman or Visigothic architecture. That also happens in many countries, people tend to mix the new fashions with the old traditions. For example, look at Turkey or Albania or Malaysia, they all are Muslims but they all are different, and If you look at their buildings and arts you will see differences in style.

@Fady Al qaisy also, we know that Arabs and North Africans were a minority because we can see it in the historical archives. There were census (for tax etc) and we know that the local population in Iberia was around 7 million inhabitants by the end of the Visigothic period. The Muslim troops were initially around 20.000 (approx). Not enough to invade. If Islam spread so fast it was because of war alliances and mass conversions (when one lord converted to Islam all his subjects and peasants had to convert to Islam too). But the Arabs and North Africans were very influential in the culture, that is for sure. They were people from all over the Caliphate travelling to Iberia, but they were still a minority. A minority can influence the majority, of course, but the local population doesn't just dissapear, they are still there building things and doing art. That's why we can say that the Alhambra is not Arab, it wasn't built by the Arabs.

You can read it everywhere that the northafricans were the very minority. you can "see" it also by dna tests, that there were barely any mixtures between the two populations

It has nothing to do with Morocco

@@likkz1326 The invasion was launched from Morocco by a mostly Berber army and a Berber leader from the Maghreb (Tariq ibn ziyad) Indeed it has nothing to do with Morocco

@@MrZorro944 No it has nothing to do with Morocco because it didn’t exist back then. It was the Umayyad who conquered Al-Andalus with an Arab Berber army. Stop appropriating other countries’s history.

@@MrZorro944not true. Omayads were not stupid to allow new converts with questionable loyalty to be in their armies. That is fatal

@@MrZorro944 Morocco in 711 it was not a country but a provnce of arab empire. Tarik was an arab

I think it is a variation of the word in standard Arabic which is الحمراء, on the "م" there is a sokoun سكون. And if you strengthen the sokoun, you will sense a small "ب" when you tighten your lips together. It's just a theory, I don't know if that's why there is a "B".

A silent letter ....

18% of Spanish comes from Arabic. When these words were absorbed, the spellings were often changed to be easier for Spanish speakers to pronounce, such as ojalá from لو شاء الله. In Spanish, "H" is silent and "M" and "R" together sounds strange, so likely the B was added to make it flow more naturally.

@@Alexandra-xv1qm what ABOUT Jesús ...I mean the prophet Sounds like EEsa عيسى

Everyone in Spain knows it as the 'Alhambra' with a 'b' and we pronounce it just like it's written.

Not for moroccans hhhh

Agreed

@@aminekaoukab4547 Not only Moroccans? A lot of people share the Andalusian heritage, especially North Africans

And the Mezquita of Córdoba, another wonder.

Muslims are not one. There are western Mongols (who call themselves TuRkS). Arabs (the fathers of the first Islamic civilizations) Persians (concubines suppliers) Barberians of north africa (tough soldiers but also concubine suppliers) Sub-saharans (slaves but can also help you find other slaves ) So you lost constantinople against the western mongolians but we arabs lost alhambra, it's not fair at all.

Arab*

Oui ont la vois aujourd'hui la dernière de la classe ou elle vous fait vivre dans l'ignorance du savoir , la preuve elle est devant vous . Vous avez inventé quoi depuis que les CHRÉTIENS vous ont foutu DEHORS de L'HISPANIA.....🚑🚑🚑🚑🚑

Wonderful! 👏

Why?

¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Why? You are not allowed to have pets, to draw or sculpt humans, to eat pork, to drink wine, to have democratic governments, but you are allowed to have 4 wives, 9 pleasure women and have non Muslim women (like Yazidis ) as slaves and also, more relevant here, to have buildings with beautiful detail

@@marioformosa4259 better than a religion with 3in1 god The son is god , the holy spirit is god and the father is god 😵 Like a shampoo 3in1 😅

@@mrrobot3267 No Islam keeps you backward, too restrictive, all about struggle, war, primitive. I suppose raiding someone's tent in a desert is normal but in a city it's fatal. Millions of Muslims want to come and live in the West

@abdo abdo hah hah.. that's the extremist dogma which we should destroy. By the libraries, you may have referred to the Alexandria, but the armies who conquered Alhambra weren't there when the Alexandria destroyed. Please go see the above comment again. Don't let your irrational filthy extremist ideology come out so often. Thanks.

​@@nirangadewruwanperera2540 No he is right. The Spanish intentionnaly burned a lot of books written by the Muslims during the Reconquista, that's where the word "autodafe" comes from. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9 And they destroyed many monuments that are now forever lost.

@@alif1217 well, in fact, I'm not worried as it is the common scenario which we can see all over the history and in this architectural case, I'm pretty sure this isn't the same as the shameful display of cowerdize Ottomans did by sacking the great Byzantine architecture. Therefore I don't still see a reason not to give credits and appreciate the armies who were great enough not to convert a thing in here.

@@nirangadewruwanperera2540 Actually, every mosque was converted into church, and sometimes partially destroyed to build a church in it. Even the king of Spain Charles Quint regretted it and said "You destroyed what we see nowhere to build what we see everywhere" in reference to the Cordoba cathedral that was build inside of the mosque

@@alif1217 yeah pathetic isn't it to see what medieval primary-minded civilizations did. It is even more sad to see still some of those primary-minded civilizations are alive and they've been converting the historical monuments into mosques and no history experts are there to criticize even they have more of them in their own civilization. And I'm still not able to find a reason not to be thankful for the Catholic armies for sparing this architectural masterpiece.

Just imagine... your a Spanish/French Soldier fighting in the (1803) Peninsula war, and your unit stops upon this. You look around, and eventually you lose track of where you are. Darkness and weird sounds spiral around you, sounds not familiar to any European. You enter a staircase, and you fall upon a Assassin bureau, lost to time. I’m getting AC Valhalla vibes with it, like when Eivor encounters Abandoned Roman era hidden one bureaus.

@@ancientragerv2561 change that date to 1807-14, and 👍

then all of Latin Americans should take back what is theirs and all of north Americans should take back what is theirs and all of Australians and should take back what is theirs.

The Muslim never conquer the Spaniard land before since they conquest the Germanic land of Visigoth at that time.

@abdo abdo You should read the myth of the Andalusian paradise, by Fernández Morera.

@@shahrukhkhan8307 These people you mentioned fought back. Of course they did. Only difference is that they lost their fight, the Spanish were lucky enough to last through the centuries to turn the tide of the invasion. And who exactly is going to fight back against in Latin America? The vast majority of people there are Latino, from the mixing of the arriving Spanish and the Native American people who lived there.

It's a reconquest from a religious perspective, because these lands were christian before being muslim, but it's a conquest from a political perspective because the kingdoms of Portugal, Castile and Aragon didn't exist before the Umayyad conquest.

Dorne?

Actually, the set of Dorne is the Alcazar of Seville

It was supposed to be filmed in Granada but Sevilla got in with permits first, a source of annoyance to the residents of Granada.

Moorish are basically Moroccans , and all this architecture and craft Moroccans are the first ceators of it, that's why you can see this Islamic architecture all over Morocco especially in Fez and Marrakech not in Algeria, Libya or wherever

@@abir9233 👍 thank u

This masterpiece was made by Moroccans ( real moorish) and only Moroccans.

@@mohamedmoumen673 actually no it was made by all people’s within the ummayad caliphate, Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans, egyptians, Moroccans/Algerians, Jordanians, Palestinians, Lebanese, Tunisian, peninsular Arabian, essentially all Arabs, except maybe besides the occasional sub Saharan African

Hey guys, here is a wild guess: Mmmm... I'm guessing there was local Iberian population living in Iberia, apart from a foreign MINORITY coming from North Africa and Arabia. And I'm guessing that these Iberian people converted to Islam and they were building things and doing artistic and cultural things, you know... Why do I have this wild theory??? Well, mainly because historical archives for tax census show that there was approx 7 million population in Iberia by the end of the Visigothic period. And that is a lot of population for any medieval country. But maybe I'm wrong, I don't know, maybe they all misteriously disappeared and the Moors were left alone to build things and develop art and sciences... And nothing made in Iberia during the time is actually IBERIAN. Right??

I hope you understand that's all fiction

@@stiannobelisto573 i was thinking maybe it was filmed there

@@stiannobelisto573 It is a fact that Joanna was suspended by a rope and weights were attached to her feet, I be-live the method was called “La Cuerda”

@@baileygr2008 Can you provide sources? Because I've heard it was a myth and I've never read something like that until that tv show.

😂😂😂😂

It's Arab, before the arab conquests there was no traces to such architecture in the Maghreb you barberians were living in caves and tents.

@@أمةالإسلامالمتحدة Hhhhhhhh

@@أمةالإسلامالمتحدة and you arabs were leaving in the desert.Andalucia was ruled by Moorish and Moroccan people.

@@hajarelijah9965 Not by moroccan (who didn´t exists by the time), by the arabs

It's not your nation!! Nobody willing return to you don't be assuming this is Christian nation!! Subjugated by Islamist Tyrants!!!

SANTIAGO Y CIERRA ESPAÑA!!!