Granada Spain - Things to do Granada - Granada Entertainment

Granada, Spain is the capital of the province Granada and is one of most popular destinations of the country, visited by tourists from all around the world.

Offers famous Alhambra, charming narrow streets of Albaicin and Sacromonte, beautiful gardens, monuments, museums, resstaurants and pubs.

Granada is great place to visit in any season and for many reasons: it is near the Mediterranean Sea with its sanny beaches, located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, with where you can practice winter-sports and contains great monuments.

See also Monumentos de Granada.

You would have planty of things to do in Granada. The range of Granada monuments, museums and entertainments on offer is great and covers big selection of informal and formal events.

Build in the 13th and 14th centuries, Alhambra is the most popular and wonderful monument in Spain.

It's Spain's most visited monument, and is simply breathtaking with its beautiful buildings and gardens.

Each Nasrid ruler contributed to the royal palaces, combining wood, plaster, marble, brick and ceramic tiles with water, light and Arabic calligraphy.

Albaizyn is the old Arabic district with its finest Moorish mansions with white buildings and courtyards filled with fountains and flowers.

There are great views from Mirador de San Nicolas over to the Alhambra on the opposite hill views of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This district was founded by Moors in 1227 and historians believe that Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in good harmony here for many years.

Generalife are charming arabic gardens are the image of a Muslim paradise: with shady trees and abundant running water.

It was an architect's house and later on, Nasrid sultan summertime escape. Was used as his summer residence in dry and hot summer.

It's still a good place for spending a relaxing day in its walkways, gardens and fountains and amazing views of the Albaicin.

Granada Catedral de la Encarnacion stands in the centre of town replacing the Great Mosque.

Build in 1521 Gothic-Renaissance building directed by Diego de Siloé and compleated by Alonso Cano in the 17th century.

It is huge in size with many other buildings crowd around it.

Capilla Real This masterpiece of late Gothic architecture was built in the early 16th century to house the tombs of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Fernando, who had conquered Spain for Christendom by seizing Granada at last in 1492.

You'll find the simple tombs in a plain underground crypt with their daughter Juana la Loca and son-in-law Felipe el Hermoso lying alongside. The outstanding features are the wrought-iron grille depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the altarpiece with scenes depicting the fall of Granada.