The place in the third visual gets its name from an event related to the one shown in the second visual. The second visual shows the transfer of power of the place shown in the first visual. The name of the place in the third visual is famous in a different context. Identify all.Answer: The fort is Alhambra in Spain. The painting depicts Boabdil, the last moorish king of Alhambra handing the fort over to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Legend has it that after being exiled, Boabdil while crossing the place shown in the third visual sighed loudly looking at his lost kingdom. The place has come to be known as Puerto del Suspiro del Moro (the pass of the moor's last sigh). Salman Rushdie's novel takes its name from this piece of legend. Iam, Johnny Walker, Srivats, Keshav, Vetti, Shreya and Rajesh got it. Well done.
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Alhambra palace of the Moors (Vis.1)
Granada was handed over by Boabdil to Ferdinand and & Isabella of Spain at Vis.3 as shown in Vis2
The spot is called Puerto del Suspiro del Moro (Pass of the Moors Sigh)
Significance: Moors last sigh name for Salman rushdie novel
Alhambra
The surrender of Granada in 1492. The last pic is Puerto del Suspiro del Moro or Pass of the Moor's Sigh.
Quoting wiki: Boabdil, the last Muslim king of Granada, and his court are said to have crossed this Alpujarras pass at 860 m in height, after being ejected from Granada by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. It is named so to describe the moment when he loudly sighed while looking back and longing for his Granada palaces, and in particular the Alhambra, an act which moved his mother to whip him with the famous "Now you weep like a woman over what you could not defend as a man."
the first pic is the alhambra in granada, spain. the second picture (i think) depicts the moor fleeing the palace and meeting his mother- a recurring motif in rushdie's 'moor's last sigh' and the third pic is a stone to mark the spot where he stood and wept. i see that the stone carries an inscription to that effect.
Alhambra - The red one
Capitulation of Granada
Pass of the Moor's singh in Seirra Nevada
Granada, Capitulation of Granada, Pass of the Moor's sigh
Alhambra, Handing over of Granada by Boabdil to Ferdinand and Isabella, Site of the Moor's last sigh
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