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Once upon a time, Spain’s hilltop Alhambra palace glittered with gold. Over the centuries, though, the Islamic citadel’s ornate, gilded structures on its ceilings and elsewhere fell into disrepair, ...

Phil Spector’s infamous castle where he shot actress Lana Clarkson to death in 2003 has sold for $3.3 million. The music producer died in prison in French Camp, where he was serving a 19-years-to-life ...

All new restaurants face obstacles, but Alhambra Palace has been besieged by problems since it opened in late April. Its daunting scale–24,000 square feet seating up to 1,400–and over-the-top decor ...

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Canary- and azure-colored tiles sheathe the exterior walls in kaleidoscopes of geometric design. Courtyard fountains tinkle like the sound of doubloons. It is the Alhambra, palace of sultans and Spain ...

This is one of two of the largest, most complete, and most ornate curtains to survive from the 1300s when it presumably hung in the royal Alhambra Palace in Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in ...