costlier predecessors in the number of the plates reproduced, will constitute a serviceable if not exhaustive guide to the beautiful Moorish capital, and an artistic remembrancer of its fascinating monuments. I have to acknowledge my obligations to Mr. E. B. d’Auvergne for his kind and valuable assistance in the compilation of the text, and for permission to reproduce many of the additional photographs I am indebted to the courtesy of Don Senan y Gonzalez, of Herr Ernst Wasmuth of Berlin, publisher of Uhde’s _Baudenkmaeler in Spanien und Portugal_, and of Herr Eugen Twietmeyer of Leipzig, publisher of Junghandel’s _Die Baukunst Spaniens_. As I have remarked in the preface to the volume on Cordova, it may be thought that in the present work I have given an excess of detail of Arabian decoration and ornament, but it has been my aim to provide the last word on Moorish art--so far at least as the pictorial representation of it is concerned--wherever I have dealt with it in Spain. To the general reader these reproductions of tracery and elaborate detail may seem superfluous, but they will, I trust, lend to the book an additional interest in the eyes of students and artists, for whose delectation they are included here. A. F. C. CONTENTS PAGE THE CITY OF THE MOOR 1 THE ALHAMBRA 25 THE GENERALIFE 61 CATHOLIC GRANADA 65 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TITLE PLATE View of Granada, showing the Alhambra and the Sierra Nevada 1 General View of the Alhambra 2 View of the Alhambra from the Sacromonte Road 3 The Alhambra from the Moor’s Seat--La Silla del Moro 4 General View of the Alhambra from San Nicolás 5 View of the Gate of Elvira 6 A View of the Alhambra from the Albaicin (_Sketch_) 7 View of the Cathedral and the Alhambra from San Gerónimo 8 View of the Sierra Nevada from the Carrera de las Angustias 9 View of the Royal Gate 10 View from the Tower in the Alhambra 11 La Plaza Nueva 12 Monument to Columbus in the Paseo del Salon; the Sierra Nevada in the Distance 13 The Street of the Catholic Sovereigns 14