Alhambra Lions and Granada's Albaicin are featured on The animated film . The fictional Broadway theatre (the interior actually Auckland, New Zealand's Civic Theatre), in which Kong is displayed as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' in 2005's "King Kong", is named "The Alhambra". There is a main belt asteroid named Alhambra. The Alhambra inspired the synagogue Isaac M. Wise Temple. Alhambra The Alhambra (; ; , "Al-Ḥamrāʾ", lit. "The Red One", the complete Arabic form of which was "Qalat Al-Hamra") is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in
Moorish Castle making it unique in the Iberian Peninsula. Gibraltar has always been of special significance to the numerous peoples and civilizations that have visited or occupied it over the ages, from the Neanderthal period, through the Classical and on to Moorish, Spanish, and the current British rule. The Moorish occupation is by far the longest in Gibraltar's recorded history, having lasted from 711 to 1309 and then again from 1350 to 1462, a total of 710 years. Historical importance of Gibraltar to both Muslims and Christians lies in the fact that the Moorish invasion and occupation of parts of western Europe