Horace I, King of Granada

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Helen Rodgers; Stephen Cavendish

Published:

2021

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

This chapter focuses on Granada during the time of the French occupation of Spain, when Napoleon’s General Sebastiani, a great admirer of the Orient, took up residence as Granada’s governor. He greeted visitors in the style, he supposed, of a Moorish King and his fascination for the Moorish heritage of the city was trumped only by his modernizing zeal. During this period, Granada saw both progress and destruction. Street lighting appeared for the first time, and gardens were laid out; however, art and valuables were looted and some of Granada’s most important monuments were drastically changed. This included during the final act of French withdrawal: when large stretches of the Alhambra walls were blown up, causing more destruction to the great monument in one morning than all the years of neglect following the culmination of the Reconquista.

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