Moorish Wall in Alto Albaicín . Granada
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Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas . photos: © David Arredondo y Alberto García . © Vicente del Amo . © Theo Coutanceau . © Jesús Torres . + archdaily
Opposite the hill of the Alhambra and the Generalife, the San Miguel hill frames the last stretch of the Darro valley and its Vega. This is a landscape absolutely linked to the city, natural and wild, but turned into a residual space, almost marginal, in which all sorts of trash and debris accumulated. It is also an area of transition to the new city, a city made of townhouses that touches slightly, amid its disorder, the incomplete fractured remains of the Moorish wall. Continue reading Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas