Granada - Arabic for pomegranate. The last Islamic city to fall to Catholic monarchs in Spain. Wherever you look up, you orientate yourself around the Al Hambra, (similar to Cape Town in that respect), the fortified Moorish palace. A city of contrast, narrow cobbled streets of the Moorish quarter, tall gothic spires nearby from the Christian one. People living in mountain caves, or fashionable apartments. Spa treatments, or natural hot springs. Artists, buskers, crafters, hippies, flamenco dancers, wanderers, lovers, all free spirits in one form or other congregate here, mesmerised. Granada, if it were up to me, I would have unpacked my bags and stayed. Not even because you have free tapas.
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra. Ernest Hemingway
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra. Ernest Hemingway
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