He left forever the Alhambra.

Granada gates opened; he rode out with a few of his emirs and servants to meet King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

The day shone bright.

Spain towered, a figure dressed in gold and red.
Santa Fe poured out to view the spectacle, and with the rest went Diego Lopez and Juan Lepe.

So great festival, so vivid the color, so echoing the sound, so stately and various the movement! Looking at the great strength massing there on the plain I said aloud, as I thought, to Diego Lopez, "Now they might do some worthy great thing!" The squire not answering, I became aware that a swirl in the throng had pushed him from me.