The Alhambra Granada

Hola Readers! We arrived in Granada the night of the 16th with plenty of R&R to celebrate my mom's birthday on the 17th! We spent quite a bit of time walking around the city and enjoying the mix of spanish and muslim architecture, which up until this point we hadn't witnessed. We also had the opportunity to stop eating jamon iberico and instead …

Granada, Spain, Monday, June 18, 2012

Today we spent most of the day in Granada and it was wonderful. First of all a little history. Granada was a special place to King Fernanda and Queen Isabel because Granada was the last stronghold of the Arab's in 1492. Once their army defeated them and "kicked the out" Spain as we know it now was born …

Lots more pictures to come!

I survived my first trip! I made it to and from Granada safely, with only a few minor bumps in the road along the way. We booked the tickets on a bit of a whim, purchasing them on Thursday, and leaving Madrid Friday night at 6:30. Round trip, the tickets were only 34 euros (like 45 dollars), an incredible deal! We rode on a coach bus, similar to …

March 5th:


1) While taking the metro to the Atocha train station, ran into a man that lives in Spain, knew some english and has actually been to America.. I asked the man if he enjoyed his stay in the states, he said "Fantastic", then I asked where exactly he stayed, he replied "Cleveland"… …

After our two days in Lisbon, we took an overnight train to Granada, Spain. Luckily this time we each got beds for the 16 hour ride, unlike our last one to Budapest. Our overnight train took us to Madrid and then in the morning we had to take even more trains to reach Granada. Upon arriving in Granada in the late afternoon, we wanted to book our …

Granada, Spain


After departing from Córdoba we traveled another hour to
reach Granada. About an hour before we arrived, we could see the mountains of
the Sierra Nevada in the distance. I haven’t seen mountains too many times in
my life, so it was a pretty beautiful scene pulling up to the city of Granada.
After …

The Alhambra in Granada is the one must-see sight everyone who goes to Spain simply must see. I've read books that say if you go to Spain and you don't see it your passport should be revoked! So needless to say it was on our list!

In a word, it is simply fabulous. We spent nearly an entire day walking around it. Far longer than we spent at …

I can't believe I took a picture as well as this one turned out! A beautiful interior courtyard in the Nazarid Palaces at the Alhambra.

I've seen almost this exact view in public website photos of the Alhambra! I guess I picked a good place for a picture!

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After a lovely breakfast at Hotel Anacapri, we were fortified for our walk uphill to the Alhambra. We were so taken by the view up the hill, we missed the sign for the Alhambra and walked a block too far, but retraced our steps and then started hiking up the hill. They put the entrance at the very top of the site, so we were not spared any …

... . Granada is huge but despite that the sunset over the Sierra Nevadas is still beautiful. By far the highlight of the city is the Alhambra, Granada's own Moorish Castle. In fact this was the whole reason for our trip there. The Alhambra, for me, took ...

... Arcos meant slowly navigating down the steep and narrow incline at 10 mph until we reached the main road for Granada and the Alhambra.   The American writer, Washington Irving (same author of 'Sleepy Hallow'), while ambassador to Spain, wrote a ...

... we moved on as we wanted to try and make arrangements to visit what most people come to Granada for, the famous Alhambra Palace.  The Alhambra was originally constructed for defensive purposes, but was later lavishly decorated by Moorish rulers with ...

... , mas cervezas and more stretched bellies. Sublime. We waddled over to the Mirador San Nicolas,, a small square overlooking the valley and the Alhambra up on the hill opposite. The view was magnificent and as the young chica morena strummed ...

(S) The rain in Spain does not fall mainly in the plain. It also hits the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Granada. But even the rain and getting to the Alhambra at 7:30 am to wait in line for the doors to open at 8:30 couldn't dampen this ...

... to see if he really was batting for the other side, plus Lucy and I would finally get to see the Alhambra. The Moorish palace which is the jewel of Granada. After the enjoyable flight, for once, we were not going to be tight wads, we were going to ...

... the tent. - the alhambra was the focus, but had a great walk around the old moorish neighbourhood on the hill opposite the alhambra complex; stunning backdrop provided by the snow-capped sierra nevada range. - alhambra is a must see....packed with ...

... cats, both of which would be coming home in large quantities if we were heading back home soon. We went to the Alhambra yesterday, timed the weather just right so it was actually sunny, but still quite cold. It was interesting and the palace was pretty ...

... who were waving around Spanish flags, honked their cars and scooters and had water fights to cool off (it was 32c at 11:30 at night!). We will post some more pictures once we visited the Alhambra. For now, though, here are some of our experiences so ...

... in Granada. From Granada we caught a local bus to Algeciras ready for our ferry ride to Morocco and our next big adventure. Footnote: Alhambra, Granada, Spain was an official Finalist in the New Seven Wonders Of The World listing. It is ...