Editing Alhambra (section)

=== Other outlying structures ===
[[File:Castillo del Mauror.JPG|thumb|The ''Torres Bermejas'' on the Mauror Hill]]
The main approach to the Alhambra today is through the Alhambra Woods in the valley on its south side. The outer entrance to the woods is through the ''Puerta de las Granadas'' ('Gate of the Pomegranates'), a formal Renaissance-style gate built in 1536 over the remains of an earlier Islamic-era gate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The gate of the pomegranates |url=https://www.alhambra-patronato.es/en/edificios-lugares/the-gate-of-the-pomegranates |access-date=2022-02-10 |website=Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife |archive-date=10 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210022656/https://www.alhambra-patronato.es/en/edificios-lugares/the-gate-of-the-pomegranates |url-status=live }}</ref> Within the woods is the ''Puerta de Birambla'' (from Arabic ''Bab al-Ramla''), one of the former Islamic-era gates in Granada's city walls which was demolished between 1873 and 1884 and then reconstructed here in 1933.{{Sfn|López|2011|p=36}} To the south of the ''Puerta de las Granadas'' are the ''Torres Bermejas'' ('Vermilion Towers'), a group of three adjacent towers on the Mauror Hill. Their origin is not clear, but the oldest remains found here date from the late 8th century or early 9th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gallego Roca |first=J. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22jwXgepN28C&dq=torres+bermejas&pg=PA33 |title=Rammed Earth Conservation |date=2012-05-31 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-203-08565-3 |editor-last=Mileto |editor-first=C. |pages=33 |chapter=Torres Bermejas: Conserving the past |editor2-last=Vegas |editor2-first=F. |editor3-last=Cristini |editor3-first=V. |access-date=11 February 2022 |archive-date=23 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623053424/https://books.google.com/books?id=22jwXgepN28C&dq=torres+bermejas&pg=PA33 |url-status=live }}</ref> They may have been inhabited by Muhammad I (the founder of the Nasrid dynasty). In the 16th century, during the Christian Spanish era, an artillery bastion was added to them on the northwest side.{{Sfn|López|2011|p=32}}

During the Nasrid period there were several other country estates and palaces to the east of the Alhambra and the Generalife, located on the mountainside and taking advantage of the water supply system which ran through this area. The two best-known examples are the ''Palacio de los Alijares'' and the ''Dar al-'Arusa'' ({{Langx|ar|دار العروس|lit=House of the Bride|links=no}}), both of which were built in the 14th century and then abandoned some time after the 1492 conquest. Only traces of them remain today. They were probably richly decorated like the Alhambra palaces and were accompanied by gardens and amenities like hammams.{{Sfn|López|2011|pp=251–255}} Also nearby is the ''Silla del Moro'' ('Seat of the Moor'), a ruined structure on the hilltop overlooking the Generalife. It was once a fort and monitoring post that protected the water supply infrastructure in this area.{{sfn|López|2011|pp=255}}