Word: alhambra
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...Spain between their initial conquest and their final expulsion -- was, of course, architecture. Of the 4,000 or so "castles in Spain" that still stand (military buildings of all kinds, from fortified palaces to watchtowers), fully a quarter were built by the Arabs. Several of their buildings, from the Alhambra, or "red castle," in Granada to the Great Mosque of Cordoba to the towering Giralda in Seville, are among the key works of world architecture...
These travels do nothing, however, to shake hisextraordinary love for the community in which hehas spent nearly 40 years, he says. "I sat down towrite a poem at the Alhambra in Granada, and whatI wrote about was the students of Dunster House...