Things to see and do Province Of Granada

A small museum, located in one of these cave houses, exposes a number of tools and objects from everyday life in the cave.

The Comarca de Guadix tourist office is located in the village of Guadix, in the province of Granada, Spain. It offers visitors interesting information on the region. The same facilities also house the Comarca de Guadix Interpretation Center. It offers services and facilities tailored to different audiences, such as young people, couples, solo travelers and the elderly. The tourism segments covered include gastronomy, leisure and entertainment, sports, nature, health and beauty, sun and beach, and culture.

After eight years of closure, six years of work, this museum has just opened its doors in May 2018. This required an investment of € 640 000 from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Andalusia junta. Located in the House of Castril, a renaissance palace of the sixteenth century, it proposes to show the daily life of the various societies that inhabited Granada. Through three rooms and a patio, a course is proposed at a semi-permanent exhibition presenting nearly 120 pieces constituting the "treasure" of this museum. This will include the tooth of Orce, a tooth that belonged to a child born more than 1.4 million years ago, making it the oldest human being found in Europe. Starting from this object, we will go back to the fifteenth century to reach the astrolabe of Ibn Zawel, dating back to 1481. An instrument of navigation which in the Muslim world was also used to exercise religious practice by allowing to know exactly the hours of prayer, the beginning of Ramadan or the appropriate position to pray towards Mecca. To note, a very nice view on the Alhambra from the patio.

He exhibits Spanish-Muslim art from the th to the th century (ceramics, wood wood, oriental Muslim art…). Notable works include a superb tablero of nazari ajedrez (walnut and birch wood board, metal and bone) or carved wood jealousy for a window of the Lions Palace (Alhambra).

Dating from the 11th century, these Moorish baths are among the oldest and best preserved in Spain and constitute one of the oldest structures in Muslim Granada. They consist of several rooms reproducing the layout of Roman baths: entrance courtyard, vestibule, cold room, central room, and hot room. The vaults with octagonal star-shaped dormers and the arcades of the last rooms, which are decorated with Roman, Visigoth or Caliphate capitals, are noteworthy.

This old caravanserai nasrid of the 14th century (the only preserved caravanserai of Spain), with its typical entrance and its balconies on two floors, now hosts some of domiciliations festivals and events of Granada, including the summers flamencos! After the Reconquista, this inn for merchants who come to do trade in the bazaar was converted into a theatre where the Lope De Vega playwright, himself, avenue, before being converted into a courtyard for food vendors, hence its current name!

Near the cathedral, one of the few good showrooms of Granada, with interesting program, permanent (works of the painter abstract José Guerrero, originally from Granada) and temporary exhibitions. 

The red ochre silhouette of this fortress, built in the 10th and 11th centuries and enlarged during the Nazari period, is noteworthy. But it is also remarkable for its location as a viewpoint from the walls, which allows you to observe the cave district on one side and the rest of the city on the other. Long closed, it should be accessible again in 2019 via a footbridge.

This excursion and car rental company organizes guided tours (Alhambra and Generalife, Alpujarra Granada, Costa Tropical and Nerja Caves...).

This bank-sponsored exhibition centre offers interest exhibitions.

It is in this place that Federico García Lorca was born on June 5, 1898, in the house of the village's mistress, his mother. With the help of Lorca's sister, the old space has been carefully restored using many original objects. The former barn has become an exhibition room with a large collection of photographs, manuscripts and publications. We will therefore find the whole universe of this major writer. It also houses a study centre on his work.

Proposes various tours and guided tours: Alhambra-Generalife, historical Granada, Alpujarra, road of García Lorca.

This former casa de cabildos was the seat of the Loja consistory from 1490 until 1927, when the town hall was transferred to the Narvaéz palace. In Renaissance style, it dates from the early 16th century and retains its original style despite subsequent restorations. Today, it is the headquarters of the municipal library and also houses the Loja History Interpretation Centre and serves as a tourist information point.

Opened in 2015, this new centre, with its modern design, which aims to "dissolve" into the urban space, aims to be a place for research and study on the life and work of Frederico García Lorca, to promote the dissemination of his literary work and to preserve the writer's documentary legacy. The latter, composed of nearly 20,000 documents including manuscripts of all types: correspondence, poetry, prose, theatre, photographs, works of art, furniture and 3,500 Lorca manuscripts and 3,000 other authors and about 50 original drawings by Lorca. With a total surface area of 4,700 square metres, this centre includes a 410-seat theatre that hosted the Granada International Poetry Festival, the International Music and Dance Festival and the Frederico García Lorca Poetry Prize ceremony; a 500 square metre exhibition hall that regularly hosts new exhibitions on Lorca's work. As well as a library and a reading room. At the entrance, a shop will allow you to buy books by this writer.

Built in the 16th century, Casa de Los Pisa was for a long time home to an important family from Granada who became famous for having welcomed San Juan de Dios during his illness, until his death in 1550. Acquired in the 19th century by the San Juan de Dios Hospital Order, it became the Order's museum and documentation centre, then abandoned and renovated in 1990 to house the San Juan de Dios Museum. A visit to this museum (twelve rooms, three galleries, a pretty patio and a chapel) will allow you to discover many paintings, beautiful pieces of silversmith's work or porcelain, furniture and also an important iconography concerning San Juan de Dios. With some curiosities such as the stick with which he walked the streets of Granada to ask for alms, or more recently, the model of the "Monument to San Juan de Dios", made by Miguel Moreno Morera and which can be seen in the gardens of the Triunfo or the parchment that King Felipe VI presented to the Order of San Juan de Dios, after receiving the Princess of Asturias of the Concord Prize, in 2015. In addition, the museum's archives contain important documentation on hospital management, one of the most comprehensive in Andalusia in this field.

It is a very good example of the popular architecture of Grenadina in the 16th and 17th centuries. And a good starting point to discover the Realejo district. The term Corrala refers to the classic house of this period, organized around a central patio. These types of projects were created in the 16th century when the increase in the population following the reconquest created a crucial need for housing. Behind a facade without any particular ornament, the patio opened up, where the inhabitants shared some common spaces, such as the washhouses, of which traces can be seen, and were housed in high apartments with access to the patio through galleries. A structure made essential by the price per square meter. As a result of the need, many Muslim and noble houses were transformed into corralada at that time. Today, it is the headquarters of the University of Granada. Feel free to come through the door to attend conferences or concerts.

Also known as the Plaza de los Flores, Flower Square, it is one of the most lively pedestrian squares in Granada, with a large central fountain dominated by the statue of Neptune. Of Nazari origin, it owes its name Bib Rambla to the Bab al-Ramla gate or puerta del arenal, sand in Spanish, one of the main gateways to the city at that time and to which it was united in its western part. It was then a small esplanade formed by sand deposits from the Darro River but its strategic location, close to places of worship, mosque and cathedral, and commercial areas, has made it the privileged place for many highlights over the centuries. Used to celebrate festivals in Muslim times, it also hosted the bullfights of the Christian period as well as the autodafés of the inquisition, since it was here that almost the entire library of the Madraza, the Koranic school and even executions were burned. After the reconquest, the Catholic Monarchs made it the Plaza Mayor, with Castilian style buildings, a function that it will share with the Campo del Principe. In this spirit, for example, at the end of the 16th century, the Casa de los Miraflores was built there, which housed the customs office and the town council, but unfortunately disappeared in a fire at the end of the 19th century. In the 18th century, it became a permanent market, which led to the opening of streets linking it to the main artery of the Reyes Catolicos and sheltered a hospital, a church and the archbishopric's palace. The 19th century gave it its current dimensions after having knocked down many arches and buildings, with the exception of the archbishopric, which underwent many modifications. Today we go there for lunch, dinner, a drink or a chocolate con churros, seated at one of its many terraces, under the lime trees. And it continues to maintain its festive atmosphere, especially on Corpus Christi day when it fills up with kiosks or at the end of the year when it hosts the traditional crèche market and many other events.

To the south-east of the city, this park offers a beautiful 80,000 square metre green space that can be accessed via four doors equipped with access ramps, the main one being Paseo de los Tilos, which leads to the Huerta de San Vincente, the García Lorca family's summer residence. Inaugurated in 1995 and designed by the architect José Ibáñez Berbel, it surrounds the poet's house by preserving the structure of the family orchard on a very small part and adopting a more modern design for the rest of the spaces. In terms of vegetation, the southern part of the park favours native species, with olive groves, poplars and ornamental plants, and white cedars, cypresses and redwoods can be found in the rest of the park and above all a very large rose garden, one of the most important in Europe. Whether in the form of canals, ponds or ornamental fountains such as the labyrinth, water is also very present. And fish, ducks and geese should also contribute to the joy of the little ones who also have a playground there.

The current building of the town hall is located on the former convent of the carmen of Granada. A 16th and 17th century convent organized around two cloisters, the new and the old, the church being leaning against the new cloister on the northeast side. Their destruction after the defamation of Mendizábal, a process of secularization of the church's property in the 19th century, created the current space of Plaza del Carmen. Of the old building, only the new cloister remains, inside the town hall. You cannot visit it, at most you can take a look at it by going to the city's tourist office, located on the ground floor of the town hall. It is the daily starting point for many tapeo tours to Calle Navas and its surroundings, and is also the site of many demonstrations, protests and celebrations, since the arrival of the New Year is celebrated there, for example, with all the necessary grapes, cotillion and fireworks.

Here is another monument that will serve as a landmark for your strolls in Granada since it is nearby that you take the bus to go to the Realejo or the Alhambra and that it is at the junction of the two most important and most commercial streets of the city. Created in 1892 by the Valencian sculptor Mariano Benlliure, one of the most important sculptors of that time, with the aim of commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Americas. Illustrating one of the most important moments in the history of Spain, this monument consists of a two-metre sculpture of Isabella the Catholic, sitting on a beautiful Gothic chair, and another two-metre sculpture, that of Christopher Columbus, kneeling to submit his projects to the Queen before embarking on his journey to India. Made of bronze by the "lost wax" system, this set is placed on a pedestal made of Sierra Elvira stones.

Located in the upper part of Realejo, it is one of Granada's beautiful viewpoints with impressive views of the cathedral, the centro and the city in general. Here you will find a 17th century washhouse with Tuscan stone columns from the Sierra Elvira, a wooden frame covered with Arabic tiles, and pavers with classic Andalusian designs on the floor. It owes its name to the proximity of the Puerta del Sol, part of the Ziri wall that separated the Realejo and el Mauror districts and is named for its orientation. Access to it will not necessarily be easy, but once in Realejo, you can go up the alley of the Santa Escolástica cemetery, behind the Casa de los Tiros. And to be more secure, don't hesitate to activate the geolocation of your mobile phone, because the alleys of Realejo are a little bit intertwined. But upon arrival the effort will be rewarded.

Both in its imposing size and its location in the highest part of the city, this church is the visual reference point in central Alhama. Probably built on the former great mosque, from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century, it is in late Gothic style for its original structure and Renaissance for the elements that have been added to it such as the choir, the upper floors of the tower and details of the south façade. Its museum houses an interesting collection of liturgical ornaments from the 15th and 16th centuries. As it is only open to the public during mass hours, it will be necessary to follow the guided tours organised by the tourist office to visit it.

Inaugurated in May 2012, this centre is located in the former stables of the Queen's Hospital. It includes a presentation of the main types of crafts, some old, but still alive today and others more recent. The work of esparto, sparte, a vegetation typical of the western Mediterranean from which rope, carpets, baskets, shoes, etc. are made; leather; basketry; stone cutting for the restoration of buildings or the creation of decorative objects; ham; silk painting and flamenco fashion accessories. The opportunity to make beautiful discoveries and to get to know the craftsmen who can be contacted.

The most famous is the one we have from the Carretera de Tocón, with a postcard view: the church of the villa at the top of its rock overlooking the city, with the church of the Encarnación in the foreground and the surroundings with soft shapes in the distance. You will even find a frame, left by the National Geografic to take the most perfect picture. A little further on, the mirador de las peñas, offers the same point of view, but from higher up. And it is of course the viewpoint at the top of the Villa that will give the most panoramic view.