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
Alhambra, California that would later become Alhambra was part of a 300,000 acre land grant given to Manuel Nieto, a soldier from the Los Angeles Presidio. In 1820 Mexico won its independence from the Spanish crown and lands once ruled by them became part of the Mexican Republic. These lands then transferred into the hands of the United States following the defeat in the Mexican–American War. A wealthy developer, Benjamin Davis Wilson, married Ramona Yorba, daughter of Bernardo Yorba, who owned the land which would become Alhambra. With the persuasion of his daughter, Ruth, Yorba named the land after a book she