The Patio de los Cipreses, also known as the Patio de la Sultana because the 15^th-century Sultana Zoraya reputedly met her lover here. The dead trunk preserved at left is supposedly where they met and were discovered by her husband, Sultan Abul Hassan; but it has been tested and found to date long after their period. In addition, the legend of the lovers long postdates their period and is almost certainly a romantic fantasy rather than history. For some reason, a plaque on the wall dates the incident to the much later reign of Boabdil, last Sultan of Granada.