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 Gibraltar the Kingdom of Castile in 1309 after a short siege. Muslim control was restored in 1333 after another, much longer, siege. The city subsequently underwent a major expansion and refortification. A number of buildings and structures from this period still exist, including the Moorish Castle, parts of the Moorish walls, a bath-house and a subterranean reservoir. Gibraltar was subjected to several more sieges before its final fall on 20 August 1462 (feast of St. Bernard) to Christian forces under the 1st Duke of Medina Sidonia. The population, Muslim and Jewish, was expelled "en masse" and replaced by Christian settlers. Gibraltar's