The Federico Garcia Lorca Park was created in memory of the poet who was shot here on the 18th of August 1936. This was at...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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