You are a guest in the Alhambra and fall asleep to the sound of its fountains | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you climb the red hill above Granada more than six hundred years ago, in the golden age of the Nasrid sultans, and you are taken in for the night as a guest of the court in the Alhambra itself. An old secretary of the palace walks you through the courtyards one by one as the lamps are lit: the long still pool that holds the moon, the hall whose cedar ceiling is a map of the seven heavens, the new courtyard where twelve marble lions carry a fountain and the water runs in channels under the arcades. You learn the secret of how a whole river was persuaded to climb the hill, so that every fountain in the palace is fed by nothing but falling water. You learn to read the carved writing that covers the walls, including the six words the palace repeats more than any others. Then the last call to prayer floats up from the city, the lamps go out one by one, and you are shown to a quiet room off a courtyard where a small fountain talks softly all night long.You will hear water all night long, the signature sound of the palace: a narrow channel running, a small fountain close by, one deeper fountain falling far off, with a nightingale far down the valley and the hush of a warm summer night on the hill.This is an extended sleep story of three and a half hours. The narration ends softly near the third hour, and then the fountains continue alone until the end. Black screen friendly.Chapters:0:00 Welcome7:04 The Red Hill At Dusk10:16 The Gate With The Hand And The Key13:22 The Street Of The Red City16:51 The House Of The Sultan21:30 A Supper By Lamplight26:52 The Court Of The Myrtles31:00 The Hall Of The Seven Heavens35:25 How The Water Climbed The Hill42:54 The Palace Of The Lions48:39 The Dome Of The Two Sisters53:06 Reading The Walls1:01:22 The Last Call To Prayer1:03:24 The Guest Room1:05:18 The Palace Settles1:07:04 DriftingListen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link.New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796Sources: Robert Irwin, The Alhambra; Oleg Grabar, The Alhambra; Antonio Fernandez Puertas, The Alhambra; Jose Miguel Puerta Vilchez, Reading the Alhambra; D. Fairchild Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain; Ibn Luyun, Treatise on Agriculture; the conservation scholarship of the Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife.A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.