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 western and southern flanks, with towers and connecting passages added to strengthen them. The existing fortifications were also strengthened and repaired. The weak points that the Castilians had exploited were improved. The refortified city – the final incarnation of Moorish Gibraltar – stood in the north-eastern part of the present-day city, reaching from the area of Grand Casemates Square up to Upper Castle Road. It was divided into three main quarters. At the top was the Tower of Homage (just part of the Moorish Castle but usually referred to as such), a formidable square keep situated within a kasbah.