The sculpture of 2.15 metres high was inaugurated in 2009, and represents the writer standing on a marble-type stone pedestal where we can read the inscription “Son of the Alhambra”, which he liked to call himself. He was elegantly dressed and had a certain air of adventurer, carrying in his left hand a notebook where he recorded the sensations he felt during his trip. It is cast in bronze giving it a greenish colour, which blends with the natural green of the woods. At his feet and on the pedestal, a Nasrid capital turned upside down, there is a travelling bag and a briefcase of symbolic drawings, which inspired the sculptor, Julio Lopez Hernandez in the encounter of two worlds, Irving’s original one, America, and Granada.
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La Alhambra, a look from Fernando Manso
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WASHINGTON IRVING AND THE ALHAMBRA
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THE GATE OF BIBARRAMBLA. Historical report of the monument and its rediscovery
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The Council of Alhambra and Generalife will refund automatically the full amount of the bookings
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