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,...

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...

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...

Orgiva is a small market town in the western area of Las Alpujarras. The Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Expectacion dates back to the...

Lanjaron has the remains of a Moorish fort which stands above a ravine. It is said that when this Almoravid castle was taken by the...

Yegen is a village in the Las Alpujarras where the Englsh writer Gerald Brenan lived in the 1920s. He wrote the book South from Granada...

Valor is an attractive village in the Alpujarra and it has a 16th Century Mudejar church with an artesonado ceiling and a Baroque image of...

Monachil is an attractive village in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Nearby is the spectacular gorge of Las Cahorras which has many climbing routes...

The Ventanas Cave is a beautiful cave with impressive stalagmites, stalactites and small lakes. Here it is possible to discover how prehistoric people lived as...

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...

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...