*1.1. La Torre de la Cautiva (The Tower of the Captive)*

The Alhambra-Generalife complex in Granada, Spain, figures on the World Heritage List since 1984, according to UNESCO records.

The Alhambra has been the ideal setting for artists and writers of Romanticism, inspired on numerous occasions by folklore and medieval historical plots. According to legend, Doña Isabel de Solís, an Andalusian noblewoman, was kidnapped and fell in love with the king of Granada, Muley Hacén. She converted to Islam and adopted the name Zoraya. The outlines of this story were part of Washington Irving's book 'A Chronicle of the conquest of Granada' [25]. A few years later, Francisco Martínez de la Rosa published the historical novel 'Doña Isabel de Solís, Reina de Granada' [26], which delves into this story and is the one that justifies the name of the tower.

The tower is part of the north-northeast walled enclosure and is located between the Torre del Cadí (Tower of the Judge) and the Torre de las Infantas (Tower of the Princesses). It was built in the mid-fourteenth century, in the time of Yusuf I. Its exterior has a sober defensive aspect and a very simple geometry, but inside it is richly decorated. The main hall measures about 5 m × 5 m and its walls contain a good number of epigraphic poems composed by Ibn al-Yayyab (1274–1349).

In addition to the plans drawn up by architects or draftsmen, which are preserved in the Archives of The Alhambra and Generalife Trust, there is also a physical model of part of the interior of the tower, which was made by Enrique Linares in the last quarter of the 19th century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London [27]. It weighs 100 kg and is almost one meter high.
