THE BALCONY 95 THE ADVENTURE OF THE MASON 101 THE COURT OF LIONS 105 THE ABENCERRAGES 112 MEMENTOS OF BOABDIL 124 PUBLIC FÊTES OF GRANADA 129 LOCAL TRADITIONS 137 THE HOUSE OF THE WEATHERCOCK 139 LEGEND OF THE ARABIAN ASTROLOGER 142 VISITORS OF THE ALHAMBRA 162 RELICS AND GENEALOGIES 167 THE GENERALIFE 170 LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL; OR, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE 172 A RAMBLE AMONG THE HILLS 205 LEGEND OF THE MOOR’S LEGACY 214 THE TOWER OF LAS INFANTAS 236 LEGEND OF THE THREE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES 237 LEGEND OF THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA 262 THE VETERAN 279 THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY 281 GOVERNOR MANCO AND THE SOLDIER 288 A FÊTE IN THE ALHAMBRA 306 LEGEND OF THE TWO DISCREET STATUES 311 THE CRUSADE OF THE GRAND MASTER OF ALCANTRA 330 SPANISH ROMANCE 338 LEGEND OF DON MUNIO SANCO DE HINOJOSA 341 POETS AND POETRY OF MOSLEM ANDALUS 347 AN EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF A DIPLOMA 355 THE LEGEND OF THE ENCHANTED SOLDIER 358 THE AUTHOR’S FAREWELL TO GRANADA 373 THE ALHAMBRA THE JOURNEY In the spring of 1829, the author of this work, whom curiosity had brought into Spain, made a rambling expedition from Seville to Granada in company with a friend, a member of the Russian Embassy at Madrid. Accident had thrown us together from distant regions of the globe and a similarity of taste led us to wander together among the romantic mountains of Andalusia. Should these pages meet his eye, wherever thrown by the duties of his station, whether mingling in the pageantry of courts, or meditating on the truer glories of nature, may they recall the scenes of our adventurous companionship, and with them the recollection of one, in whom neither time nor distance will obliterate the remembrance of his gentleness and worth.[1]