Trevelez is the highest village in the Alpujarra and because of its clean mountain air it has become known for its air cured hams. This...

The Aquaola Water Park lies just outside the city of Granada and it has amusements for all the family. There is a pool with a...

Capileira is a village beside the Barranco de Poqueira Gorge in the Las Alpujarras of the Sierra Nevada. Situated at 4000 feet above sea level,...

Casa Alpujarrera is a folk museum in a large house with displays about life in La Alpujarras, covering the architecture, folk customs and everyday life...

Pitres is a village in the Alpujarras situated in fine walking country. In the valley below are ancient hamlets with paths between them that wind...

This dramatic castle stands on a hill above the village of La Calahorra. Rodrigo de Mendoza visited Italy and on his return built this castle....

The Casa Museo Manuel de Falla is dedicated to the great composer who lived in the house in the 1920s. Born in Cadiz in 1876,...

Granada`s huge science park houses an interactive museum, a planetarium, an astronomy garden and a tropical butterfly house. The science park aims to offer something...

Begun in the early 16th Century, this huge, square Renaissance building appears incongruous in its setting at Alhambra, but it houses two interesting museums. The...

Located to the north of Alhambra, the beautiful palace gardens consist of terraces, paths, pools, fountains, hedges, trees and flowers. In a far corner is...

The Sacromente Interpretation Centre is in the mysterious Sacromento gypsy quarter of Granada. The gypsies are said to have first come to Granada to work...

The Church of Santo Domingo dates from the 16th Century when it was part of the Monastery of Santa Cruz la Reale. It has a...

The Church of Nuestra Senora de las Angustias was built in the 17th Century by Master Ortega on the site of a chapel dedicated to...

Enchanting Alhambra was built in the 13th and 14th centuries under caliphs when the Nasrid dynasty ruled Granada. Napoleon used the palace fortress as a...

The Paseo de los Tristes is a lovely square beside the River Darro. It takes its name from funeral processions that came this way on...

The Casa del Chapiz is a Mudejar house built in the 16th Century. It is named after its owner Lorenzo el Chapitz. The house is...

The Granada Archaeological Museum is housed in the Casa de Castril, a Renaissance mansion with a plateresque doorway. Objects on display range from prehistoric to...

Built in the Renaissance style, this fortress like Mudejar palace was built in the 1500s and belonged to the family who were given Generalife after...

Older than Alhambra, this Moorish bathhouse, known as En Banuelo, is among the best preserved in Spain and is a National Monument of Cultural Interest....

The Corral del Carbon began as a Moorish grain storehouse. Built in the 14th Century, it has been declared an Artistic and Historic Monument, and...