The varied Mediterranean vegetation includes species among others African rosemary, irises, bougainvilleas, coves, heliotropos and salvia. Between the trees there is unit of lemon trees, distinguished or palms date palms that next to the roses provide the mixture of fragrances that hoards the Alhambra from medieval times. In the inner galleries of the botanical garden there are small architectonic examples of the characteristics of the construction for one better understanding of the challenge that supposes for the time a walled city equipped with as much sophistication. Triple arcs, parterres, batteries and sources illustrate a unique mixture of architecture, engineering and horticulture. The sample is not limited the sumptuous thing of the flora. The exhibition Historical Views: Tourists AT the Alhambra (historical Visions: Tourists in the Alhambra) are a compendium of the passions that has raised to the construction in artists and international travellers.
The Hispanic Society of America provides to the Botanical Garden of New York bibliographical peculiarities, impressions, photographies, watercolors and objects related to the Alhambra, from the century XVI to the XX. Between jewels of the collection there are documents of century XVI that offer the first detailed descriptions of the Alhambra. The engravings that 1665 and 1668 enter made the French artist Louis Meunier also include the first artistic manifestations that show the interiors of the palace. It also emphasizes a newspaper of the romantic writer Washington Irving, a lover of the Spanish culture, that published a collection of tests and histories related to the Alhambra, of that fell in love after spending the summer of 1829 there lodged. The organizers complete this revision with readings of poems and round tables around the figure of the granadino Federico Garci'a Lorca, tastings of Mediterranean food and activities of flamenco. Source of the news: The Botanist of New York recreates the gardens of the Alhambra