Alhambra, the red palace from my childhood dreams

As written in the former post, travelling to Granada, to see Alhambra has been a dream since my childhood.

The Granada, by the way, is believed to origin from the spanish word for pomegranate, granado – and some believe it is of arabic origin, from gar-anat, meaning hill of pilgrims. But the most accurate might be granado, as pomegranate is the locally abundant fruit in Granada.

After going to Catedral de Granada, we went for lunch. There weren’t much open at that time, so we found what was open, and the food here was definitely nothing great :-/ But that was what we could get.

Hereafter we met in front of the cathedral again with the guide and all the others, and we went to Alhambra 😉

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Dream coming true – Granada, here I come! ;)

Yep, you got that right!

Visiting Granada has been a dream for me since I was 10 years old, actually. In a maths lesson while in grade 4, my then maths teacher – Bent Nørgaard – was teaching algebra and geometry, he showed us a picture of some geomtric design, that were mathematically created. These designs were not just some random designs; NO, they were from a historical site, and Bent told us about how the muslims/Arabs created these patterns using maths. The patterns and designs he showed us from a particular place he had travelled to – Alhambra in Spain.

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