LA TORRE DE LOS PICOS—THE TOWER OF THE PEAKS—
is a Moorish postern gate crowned with minarets. The openings in the Tower for dropping missiles upon assailants are of the time of the Catholic Sovereigns. It is said that the
THE TOWER OF THE PEAKS.
French intended to blow up this Tower—the holes made by the sappers yet remain—but the procrastination of their agents saved the building. From this postern, a path, crossing the ravine, leads up to the Generalife.