Granada travel guide

Top 10 sights in Granada

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   Alhambra

   A fortified palace city built by the Nasrid emirs in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the only medieval Islamic palace anywhere to survive substantially intact. Around two and a half million people a year now come, so the Nasrid rooms are entered by timed slot booked well in advance.

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   Generalife

   The summer estate on the hill above the Alhambra, whose Court of the Water Channel is the oldest surviving Islamic garden in Spain. The water arrives by an aqueduct the Nasrids built from the mountains and has never stopped running.

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   Albaicín

   The old Muslim quarter on the hill opposite the Alhambra, World Heritage along with it, and still a maze of stepped lanes and walled gardens called cármenes. The terrace by San Nicolás is where everyone watches the Alhambra go red at sunset.

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   University of Granada

   A university founded in 1531 by Charles V on the foundations of the Nasrid madrasa, and now with some sixty thousand students in a city of a quarter of a million. It has for years been the most requested Erasmus destination in Europe, which is audible after midnight.

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   S.A.I. Catedral Metropolitana de la Encarnación

   A cathedral begun in 1523 on the site of the great mosque, started as Gothic and taken over by Diego de Siloé, who turned it into the first Renaissance cathedral in Spain. The rounded sanctuary was designed as a royal mausoleum before the plan changed.

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   Royal Chapel of Granada

   The chapel Ferdinand and Isabella built to be buried in, choosing Granada because taking it was the achievement they wanted remembered. Their lead coffins sit in the crypt beneath enormous marble effigies, and Isabella's own picture collection hangs in the sacristy.

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   Palace of Charles V

   A palace Charles V inserted into the Alhambra from 1527: a square block containing a perfectly circular two-storey courtyard, and the purest High Renaissance building in Spain. It was left roofless for four centuries and finished only in the twentieth.

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   Puerta de Elvira

   The main gate of the eleventh-century Zirid city, a horseshoe arch of brick and stone at the bottom of the Albaicín. The street that runs through it, Calle Elvira, follows the same line it did a thousand years ago.

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   Granada Charterhouse

   A Carthusian monastery begun in 1516 and built over three centuries, which is why it ends in the most extreme Spanish baroque. Its sacristy of the 1760s is worked in brown and white marble and stucco to a pitch that is either sublime or hysterical, depending on the visitor.

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    Madrasah of Granada

    The madrasa founded by Yusuf I in 1349 and the first university in Granada, later swallowed by a baroque town hall. The original prayer hall survives inside, with its mihrab and a honeycomb dome, reached through a nineteenth-century staircase.

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   Muralla de la Alcazaba

   A fortress at the western end of the Alhambra in Granada in Spain. Muhammad I, founder of the Nasrid dynasty, built it after 1238, and it is the oldest part of the Alhambra.

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   Sacromonte

   The hillside quarter east of the Albaicín where Roma families cut houses into the soft rock, some of them still lived in. The zambra, the flamenco form developed in these caves, is performed in them nightly, with varying degrees of authenticity.

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   Partal

   The oldest surviving palace inside the Alhambra, built in the early fourteenth century by Muhammad III — a five-arched portico and tower reflected in a pool. Most of the residence behind it is gone, so it reads as a fragment, which it is.

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   Monasterio de San Jerónimo

   A Hieronymite monastery whose church holds the tomb of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the general called the Great Captain, who invented the tactics Spanish infantry used for the next century. The retable behind the altar covers the whole east wall.

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   Granada Mosque

   A mosque opened in 2003 beside the San Nicolás viewpoint, and the first built in Granada since the city fell in 1492. Its garden looks directly across at the Alhambra, which was the point of choosing the site.

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   Palacio de Dar-Al-Horra

   A fifteenth-century Nasrid palace in the Albaicín, said to have been the residence of the mother of Boabdil, the last emir. Christian nuns took it over within years of the conquest, which is why it survived; it is small, plain and worth the climb.

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   Monument to Isabella I of Castile and Christopher Columbus

   A public sculpture in Granada in Spain. Mariano Benlliure designed it, and it shows in bronze the meeting of Isabella I and Columbus.

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   Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo

   The remains of a thirteenth-century Nasrid palace in the Realejo district of Granada. It predates the Alhambra, which makes it a record of early Nasrid building; it later served as a convent and is now an exhibition space.

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   Palacio de los Olvidados

   A museum in the Albaicín in Granada in Spain. It deals with the Spanish Inquisition and with the heritage of Granada and Andalusia, and occupies the Casa de Santa Inés.

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    Science Park of Granada

    A science centre in Granada in Spain. It covers seventy thousand square metres with a wide range of hands-on displays and belongs to the European network of science centres and museums.

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