The Nasrid ramparts of the Albaicín (Granada, Spain): An analysis of materials and building techniques

Figure 1 shows a hypothesis of the evolution of the medieval ramparts of Granada according to the consensus of scholars (Seco de Lucena 1975,

1 INTRODUCTION

Rammed-earth construction is a traditional building technique with a very long history that, in our context of interest, has an important development in the Almohad period and reaches its height in the Nasrid period, the moment the Albaicín ramparts are built, with the introduction of significant improvements in the technique.