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The Green House (Original title: La Casa Verde) is the second novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1966.The novel is set over a period of forty years (from the early part of the 20th century to the 1960s) in two regions of Peru: Piura, a dusty town near the coast in the north, and Peruvian Amazonia, specifically the jungle region near the Marañón river.
In the first part, the events which led to the downfall of Granada are related with uncommon brilliancy, and Pérez de Hita's sympathetic transcription of life at the Emir's court has clearly suggested the conventional presentation of the picturesque, chivalrous Moor in the pages of Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Lafayette, Châteaubriand and ...
South from Granada (Spanish: Al sur de Granada) is a 2003 Spanish comedy film directed by Fernando Colomo which stars Matthew Goode as Gerald Brenan (author of South from Granada), a demobilized British soldier who in 1919 rents a house for a year in a village in Alpujarra, alongside Verónica Sánchez and Guillermo Toledo.
Exterior of the Palacio de la Madraza today. The Madrasa of Granada (Spanish: Madraza de Granada) also known as the Palacio de la Madraza [1] [2] or the Madrasa Yusufiyya (Arabic: المدرسة اليوسفية), [3] is a historic building and former madrasa in Granada, Spain. It was founded in 1349 by the Nasrid monarch Yusuf I, Sultan of ...
The Archaeological Museum of Granada is an archaeological museum in Granada, Spain. It was established in 1879. [1] The museum moved to its current home in the Albayzín district in the 20th century. It is located at 41, Carrera del Darro in the Castril Palace, dating from the 16th century. It includes a Renaissance patio. The building's ...
Granada Charterhouse (Spanish: Cartuja de Granada) is a Carthusian monastery in Granada, Spain. It is one of the finest examples of Spanish Baroque architecture. The charterhouse was founded in 1506; construction started ten years later, and continued for the following 300 years.
Ali Omar ibn Nazar (later Alonso de Granada Venegas) (abt. 1467 – 1534) [7] ⚭ (1st) Juana de Mendoza ⚭ (2nd) Maria de Quesada Pedro de Granada Venegas, 1st Señor de Campotéjar (Granada, 13 April 1502 – Granada, 26 October 1565), ⚭ (1st) Maria Rengifo de Avila ⚭ (2nd) Maria de Mendoza, Señora de La Frontera, ancestor of the ...
South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan, first published in 1957. Brenan, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group , settled in Spain in 1920, [ 1 ] and lived there on and off for the rest of his life. [ 2 ]