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Exterior view of a side wall of the Patio de los Arrayanes

Wooden eave above the Palacio de Comares façade in courtyard opposite the Cuarto Dorado

Portico, Palacio de Comares, Patio de los Arrayanes

Palacio de Comares southern pavilion portico, Patio de los Arrayanes

Plasterwork wall and wooden ceiling, hall off of the Patio de los Arrayanes, Palacio de Comares

Western façade, Patio de los Arrayanes, Palacio de Comares

Plasterwork detail, Palacio de Comares façade, Patio de los Arrayanes

Façade, Palacio de Comares southern pavilion, Patio de los Arrayanes

Door detail, northern façade of the Palacio de Comares, Patio de los Arrayanes

The Comares Palace was organized around a courtyard traditionally known as the Patio de los Arrayanes (Court of the Myrtles) or the Patio de la Alberca (Court of the Pond). Navagero (Viaje, 46) notes its slabs of very white, fine marble, some of them huge. He also records a pond beside which were two “beautiful hedges of myrtle and a few orange trees.”

Rafael Manzano Martos and Massimo Listri, La Alhambra, 75–89.

Antonio Orihuela Uzal, Casas y palacios nazaríes, 81–97.

Source: Travel Account, 1525

-Antonio Almagro, Luis Ramón-Laca

Resources:

Viaje por España y Portugal, 1494-1495 (Open in Zotero)

Casas y palacios nazaríes: siglos XIII-XV (Open in Zotero)

Originally published at: Almagro, Antonio, and Luis Ramón-Laca. “Patio de los Arrayanes, Alhambra.” Middle East Garden Traditions. Dumbarton Oaks, November 18, 2014. https://www.doaks.org/resources/middle-east-garden-traditions/catalogue#b_start=0&c6=Andalusian++Gardens. Archived at: https://perma.cc/J8KF-DV5P

Granada, Spain

Introduction to the Catalogue of Andalusian Gardens

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Granada, Spain

1232-1492

Dumbarton Oaks MEGT Record

The Comares Palace was organized around a courtyard traditionally known as the Patio de los Arrayanes (Court of the Myrtles) or the Patio de la Alberca (Court of the Pond). Navagero (Viaje, 46) notes its slabs of very white, fine marble, some of them huge. He also records a pond beside which were two “beautiful hedges of myrtle and a few orange trees.”