Sunset in the Alhambra

The autonomy of architecture is based in the exclusive possibilities it has to introduce beauty in everyday life.

Sometimes, however, certain coincidences improve those possibilities: like the couple of gypsies that were singing flamenco at San Nicolas Square in the Albaicin (Granada) with the Alhambra in front of us (watch the video below). The landscape, history, architecture, music...reality conspiring to impact our sensibility.

What is not a coincidence is the panoramic view of the Alhambra from the squares and gardens in the Albaicín: it is a tradition that all the open spaces in Granada, specially the "carmenes", face that marvellous building.