Yusuf I of Granada begins building the Alhambra's palaces
1330
The Nasrid emir, ruling the last Muslim toehold in Iberia, expanded his ancestors' hilltop citadel into a hall of fountains and stucco arabesques. The Comares Tower would soon rise over Granada like a bejeweled lantern, its ceiling a wooden cosmos of interlocking stars. Christian armies pressed against the borders even as the palace got more beautiful.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.