thumb|upright=0.75|Bronze lamp from the Alhambra Mosque, dated to 1305 (housed at the National Archaeological Museum) While the walls and rooms of the Alhambra are devoid of furnishings today, they would have originally been decorated and filled with many objects such as carpets, floor cushions, and tapestries or similar objects to be hung on the walls. The custom of sitting on the ground explains why some of the windows in the miradors (lookout rooms) were situated so low, where the eyeline of seated persons would be.
thumb|upright=0.75|Bronze lamp from the Alhambra Mosque, dated to 1305 (housed at the National Archaeological Museum) While the walls and rooms of the Alhambra are devoid of furnishings today, they would have originally been decorated and filled with many objects such as carpets, floor cushions, and tapestries or s,imilar objects to be hung on the walls. The custom of sitting on the ground explains why some of the windows in the miradors (lookout rooms) were situated so low where the eyeline of seated persons would be.