 The declivities and skirts of these hills were covered with houses to the number of seventy thousand, separated by narrow streets and small squares, according to the custom of Moorish cities. The houses had interior courts and gardens, refreshed by fountains...  A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Page 15by Washington Irving - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...and grove, delightful to the eye. The whole was surrounded by high walls, three leagues in circuit, and fortified by a thousand and thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, tempered the fervid rays of summer ; and thus, while other cities... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 432 pages
...spacious plain, covered with houses, and crowded with inhabitants. It was * Zurita, lib. xx. c. 42. commanded by a fortress called the Alcazaba. The declivities...thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of summer... | |
 | Washington Irving - Granada (Kingdom) - 1835 - 770 pages
...fountains and ruaning streams, and set out with oranges, citrons, and pomegranates, so that as the edifiees of the city rose above each other on the sides of...walls, three leagues in circuit, with twelve gates, and fortiIied by a thousand and thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighborhood of the Sierra... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...delightful to the eye. The whole was surrounded by high walls, three leagues in circuit, with twelve abates, and fortified by a thousand and thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of the summer;... | |
 | Washington Irving - Granada (Kingdom) - 1850 - 522 pages
...luxurious decorations, still retaining their brilliancy and beauty, in defiance of the ravages of time. Opposite to the hill on which stood the Alhambra was...thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of summer;... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...appearance of city and grove delightful to the eye. The whole was surrounded by high walls, three leagues iu circuit, with twelve gates, and fortified by a thousand...thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of the summer... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 pages
...luxurious decorations, still retaining their brilliancy and beauty, in defiance of the ravages of time. Opposite to the hill on which stood the Alhambra was...thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of summer;... | |
 | European history - 1860 - 310 pages
...itself, " The declivities and skirts of these hills were covered with houses to the number of 70,000, separated by narrow streets and small squares, according...leagues in circuit, with twelve gates, and fortified by 1030 towers." Another writer says that Granada had formerly twenty gates. On the summit of one of these... | |
 | Mary Eyre - France - 1865 - 390 pages
...equal the heauty of the Hall of the Ambassadors, the Sala de Justicia, and the boudoir of the Sultana. declivities and skirts of these hills were covered...and thirty towers. The elevation of the city and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of summer... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1870 - 526 pages
...spacious plain, covered with houses, and crowded with inhabitants. The declivities and skirts of the two hills were covered with houses to the number of seventy...thirty towers. The elevation of the city, and the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada, crowned with perpetual snows, tempered the fervid rays of the summer... | |
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