Friday Update from Cece and Jade

¡Hola familias! Today we got the chance to visit the Alhambra — a palace in Granada which dates back to the 14th century. The Alhambra started as a church, was converted into an Arab mosque, and then converted back into a Church during the Spanish Inquisition. Our tour guide, Laura, took us around the different palaces, mosques, churches and gardens and taught us about the history behind each of them.  

As we learned earlier this week, our favorite thing we learned was about the daughter of Isabel and Fernando, the Catholic king and queen of Spain in the 1500’s, whose husband was unfaithful. She was painted as a crazy woman and was jailed for 40 years because of feeling “jealous” about her husbands infidelity. Years later, when sculptures were made of Juana and her husband, Felipe, Juana’s head was portrayed as heavier in the sculpture, symbolizing the truth behind the marriage that Juana was the more smart, powerful person in the marriage. 

We walked around the Muslim neighborhood (Albaicín) of Granada with many beautiful shops and architecture and ate Mediterranean food for lunch. 

We ended the night with dinner in town and watching “Sagrada Familia” a popular TV show in Spain. 

- Jade y Cece