Word: alhambra
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...BARRIO Alhambra, Calif...
...months of 1953, many of them in the humpbacked little Volkswagen that are driving British cars off Central Europe's roads. Millions more camped by picture-postcard rivers or along the Baltic shores. Germans pointed Leicas at Rome's Colosseum, Istanbul's bazaars, Granada's Alhambra. Their wives thumbed the lingerie in the Faubourg St. Honoré, where Parisian shopkeepers endured the hated language for the sake of the Deutsche mark. Richer folk drove to Greece by way of Yugoslavia, and one of them reminded his host that he had passed this way before...
...Spain last week, all musical roads led to Granada. There, to the historic shadows of the old Moorish Alhambra, came a crowd of festival fans and such internationally famed performers as Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. For Granada, it was the windup of a fortnight of music and dance, the second in two years, which the city fondly hopes will become an annual affair eventually rivaling Bayreuth, Salzburg and Edinburgh...
With a sound sense of drama, the festival managers arranged to have all performances held in the patios of the Alhambra. Afternoon events began in daylight and ended in evening shadows; after dark, discreetly situated floodlights illumined the cypresses and medieval arches...
...Alhambra, Calif...