Seeing the lush gardens high over the city and the irrigation system built into the fortress floors themselves made me feel like I was seeing The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the original 7 wonders of the world.
Building this place, they obviously had a plan for every inch of its gardens, so that every lil plant was watered by its irrigation system run by nothing other than rain and gravity! It is so simple, it is brilliant, but it proves my original impression that the plan for the Alcazaba was random was wrong!
See how high up we are? And you can see it goes up even higher behind me.
Irrigation crevices in the floor of the entire place bring the rain water down, down...
...And spreads it around...
...Even down steps...
...To water beautiful gardens...
...Trees...
...And reflection pools...
...To curve around John...
...And, er, fill bathtubs (?)...
...then flow through Pan's Labyrinth...
...to the Secret Garden! This was behind a giant gate we could not get past. It looks much wilder than the rest, eh?
We both just loved this place; it is so beautiful. We were only able to spend an hour here, and we had to literally run through it to make the bus home. Hopefully, one of our visitors from the States will give us an excuse to go back!
(hint hint)
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Incredible Jenn, just incredible! I would love to go there. You did a great job capturing all the little crevices and streams throughout the garden. It looks like it was warm day too!
Thanks for sharing something so beautiful!
All our green will so be disappearing : (
What a beautiful place, and your pictures really capture it! I really enjoy seeing all the neat places you all have visited!
Thanks! John thought I was nuts takin all these pictures of the water in the floor, but it totally amazed me.
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