If, like us, you are exhausted from taking in so much magnificence, essentially unexpectedly, in spite of knowing that it is, and has long been, ever since the days of Washington Irving, Richard Ford and Owen Jones, one of the great architectural sights of Europe, then I have two recommendations:  one is, as we did, to retreat to the terrace of the Parador, which was itself previously a monastery and where we were able to enjoy gin and gazpacho;  and to sit on the terrace of the Generalife, looking out over gardens towards the city:-