Granada and Alhambra, the beautiful ancient city, the “true paradise of Muhammad” and the red fortress on top of the hill, are forever connected with each other. About Granada and Alhambra written historical chronicles, poems and dozens of books, and perhaps the most famous of them belongs to the pen of the American romantic Washington Irving. In the motley fabric of her unusual narrative, the impressions of an enthusiastic observant traveler are also freely intertwined. and information, collected by an inquisitive and romantic meditation-prone historian, Domestic Scenes and , .......................................... Finally, Legends and Stories , , Those who have touched the living imagination of the writer and transferred to them with amazing skill . [ The framing of the entire book is the story of Irving's three-month stay in the Alhambra, from his journey from Seville to Granada to the day when the diplomatic service forces him to leave this "Muslim elysium" to plunge back into "the thicket and dump of a dull world".[citation needed]