54 GRANADA 



Giulio Aquila and Sandro Mainere, both pupils 

 of Raphael. 



The charming little garden or patio of Lin- 

 daraja or Daraja, which intervenes between 

 this regal boudoir and the Moorish mirador, 

 appears to have been originally called Jin Dar 

 Aja, or garden of the palace of Ayesha. The old 

 Moorish garden that used to extend as far as the 

 Tower of Comares is now confined by the walls 

 of the Sala de las Ajimeces and three arcades 

 of modern construction. The fountain in the 

 centre dates from the seventeenth century. 

 An enchanting spot is this, with its cypress, 

 orange, and citron-trees rising from trim hedges 

 of myrtle and rose. 



Between this garden and the court of the Al- 

 berca lie the baths those indispensable adjuncts 

 to the Muslim household most skilfully and 

 artistically restored by Contreras. The plan is 

 that usually followed throughout the East. 

 Passing through the Sala de las Cdmas or Unrobing 

 Room, where, from a high gallery the songs of 

 the odalisques were wafted down to the sultan 

 reclining in one of the alcoves, we enter the Sala 

 de Bafios, with its white marble bath and pave- 

 ment of glazed tiles. This corresponds with the 

 apartment called by the Arabs, the hararah, or 

 vapour-bath, and described in Lane's " Manners 

 and Customs of the Modern Egyptians " ; and 



