Gate of the Judgments in the Alhambra at Granada - Andalucia

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THE ALHAMBRA - Granada: Section of the GATE OF THE JUDGMENT - PUERTA DEL VINO - GREAT CISTERN

A SECTION OF THE GATE OF JUDGMENT.
THIS engraving will convey some idea of the solid masonry, with which the gate is constructed. After the copious elucidations already given, little remains to be offered respecting
it. We may however remark, that
A. is the niche in which the statue of the Virgin Mary is placed, which appears in Plate XIV. In
B. Are placed the benches for the invalids to sit on, who mount guard at this gate.
C. A door-way, opening into other parts of the palace, which is now covered with plates of iron.

ELEVATION OF THE PUERTA DEL VINO.
THE position of this gate may be seen in Plate XI. No. 2. Whence its name, Puerta del Vino, or the Wine-Gate, is derived, we have not been able to ascertain. The door is of palm-tree wood, with iron bolts; and over the gateway is a dwelling, leading from the guard-house entrance to the palace of the Emperor Charles V.

PLAN AND SECTION OF THE GREAT CISTERN.
CONTIGUOUS to the Palace of the Emperor Charles V, is the Plaza de los Algibes, or square of the cisterns, which is thus denominated from the ancient cisterns constructed beneath it, and which are constantly supplied with running water, brought &om a neighbouring hill, about one league distant. So abundant was the quantity thus conveyed, as fully to answer the demands of the numerous inhabitants who anciently occupied the Alhamra. The largest of these sub terraneous cisterns is correctly delineated in our Engraving; and, when the water is discharged from it, it is perhaps one of the most curious objects of attention in the whole palace. It has been formed at a considerable depth below the surface of the ground; is one hundred and two feet in length by fifty-six feet in width; and the whole is inclosed by a wall six feet thick, and arched over. This arch, marked A. in the plate, is forty-seven feet seven inches high in the centre, and seventeen feet five inches below the surface of the ground.
B. B. Are two circular openings, twenty.five feet six inches asunder, from centre to centre of each, and strongly walled. They are three feet six inches in diameter, and are carried up three feet six inches above the surface of the ground, in order to admit both air and light.
C. is a vault eleven feet square; after passing which, the steps
D. lead from the surface of the ground down to the bottom of the cistern. Four feet above the second landing place.
E. is the level of the vault C. through which the water passes, and enters the cistern. F. F. F. are three openings between the two landing places descending to the bottom. They are six feet in height by three feet in width. The descent of the steps from the surface of the ground to the bottom of the cistern is sixty feet.
G. is a sewer, to carry off the water: for which purpose a man was let down the well, H. by a rope. The apparatus for discharging the water was extremely simple, con sisting of a brass cock, which was fixed at the extremity of
I. a narrow subterraneous corridor. This immense reservoir is supposed to have been constructed with the design of keeping the water in a state of perpetual coolness,-a luxury, which in hot climates is regarded of the utmost consequence.

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