Granada – a quick trip!

Granada is an old city in Southern Spain not far from Malaga and sits at the bottom of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It is a citadel and like many cities of southern spain has a strong Islamic background and culture. Islamic architecture and Arab street life mixes with churches, cathedrals and monuments.

Its most famous building is the Alhambra - a Moorish fortress with grand archways and delicate ornamental mosaics.  You can walk up to it through the cobblestone streets of the Albayzin district of the city.  It is an astonishing palace complex whose Islamic decor and landscaped gardens are without peer in Europe.

It was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Nasrid Emir Mohammed ben Al AhmarIt was converted into a royal palace 1330 and in the late1400’s the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella.who commissioned Christopher Columbus to undertake his famous voyages.

You have to have a ticket to enter the Nasrid palace – the ticket has an entry time and you cannot miss it.  Tickets can be booked up weeks in advance it is such a popular place

I spent 4 hours walking round and didn’t get to see all of it.

I shall have to go back for a second bite ..

Richard

   

• Share this:
• More news:
• 

  Legend of Thanksgiving

  Posted on 21 November 2017 in Blog

  When the first metalcasters arrived in the new world, what would one day become the thirteen colonies and ultimately the United States of America, they landed in Plymouth.

• 

  A Rat's Tale

  Posted on 19 June 2018 in Blog

  I had been away attending an exhibition (MACH 2018)
  
  Get back home and need to go shopping. Start the car and a warning light comes up – Parking sensor failed.
  
  It had not been anywhere and no damage where it was parked – on a drive – so I cancelled the warning.