Inside the splendid La Catuja Monastery is a magnificent church containing multicoloured marble. The construction of the monastery started in the early 16th Century, but...

The Hospital Real is a splendid Renaissance and Gothic building that was founded in the 16th Century by the Catholic Monarchs. It was built to...

The Monastery of San Jeronimo is mainly Renaissance in style and two fine plateresque doorways give entrance to the cloister. Much of the work was...

The Basilica of San Juan de Dios dates from the 18th Century, and is the final resting place of San Juan de Dios who founded...

Although not finished until the 18th Century, work on the Granada Cathedral began in the 1520s. Diego de Siloe directed the building from 1528 to...

Built in the 15th Century in the Albaicin quarter, the Palace of Dar al-Horra was the last residence of the Moorish King Boabi`s mother. The...

Huerta de San Vicente is where Granada`s famous poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca spent his summers. In rooms overlooking the Alhambra he wrote some...

The Convent of Santa Isabel La Real was founded by Isabel the Catholic on the remains of a Moorish palace. It was built in the...

The Capilla Real was built as a mausoleum for the Catholic monarchs in the early 16th century. Isabel died first and her body lay in...

The Mariana Pineda European Centre for Women is housed in the last home of Mariana Pineda. Born in 1804, she became a Spanish national heroine...

The Centro Jose Guerrero is dedicated to the artist Jose Guerrero who was born in Granada in 1914. He was an abstract expressionist who achieved...

The Mezquita Mayor de Granada was opened in 2003 in the part of Granada known as the Albayzin. This new mosque has an Islamic centre...

The Church of El Salvador was built on the site of the former main mosque of Granada, from which columns, a water cistern and the...

Casa de Porras is a splendid mansion that was built in the 16th Century. On its facade is a coat of arms and there is...

St John of God was the founder of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers. The museum is housed in the mansion where he lived during...

The Church of Santa Ana y San Gil was built in the early 16th Century on the site of a mosque. It is a Mudejar...

The Palace of La Madraza was built in the early 14th Century by the Nasrid King Yusuf 1 as an Islamic school. After Granada was...

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...

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....

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...