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 Gibraltar retreated to the castle and surrendered after a few days to Medina Sidonia. They were expelled along with the city's Jewish population, to be replaced by Spanish Christians. The "Reconquista" of Gibraltar took place on the feast of St. Bernard, whom the Spanish named patron saint of Gibraltar and has remained so ever since. This brought an end to Moorish Gibraltar, just over 751 years after Tariq ibn-Ziyad had begun the conquest of Iberia. Moorish Gibraltar The history of Moorish Gibraltar began with the landing of the Muslims in Hispania and the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo