Granada – Random Photos
This will be our last Granada post (I promise), a random collection of pictures taken during our trip there. Enjoy!
Granada – The Cave People of Guadix
Guadix is a beautiful town an hour east of Granada, which we visited on our trip back to Valencia. (It's also the home of the pyrotechnic company who put on…
Granada – Hammam, Arabic Baths
By the end of our trip to Granada, we were physically and mentally exhausted. In just a few days, we had seen so much, and had been running around the…
Granada – Federico Garcia Lorca
"Viento del Sur,moreno, ardiente,llegas sobre mi carne,trayéndome semillade brillantesmiradas, empapadode azahares..."- Veleta (excerpt), Federico Garcia Lorca Spain's most famous poet and the favorite son of Granada, Federico Garcia Lorca was…
Granada – Bodega Barranco Oscuro in Las Alpujarras
Midway into our drive through the Alpujarras, we stopped at Bodega Barranco Oscuro, a small family-run winery near Cádiar. It was the off-season, and just after 5pm, so I think…
Granada – Las Alpujarras
The second half of our Granada day trip took us east from Almuñécar along the Costa Tropical and then north into the Alpujarras. A gorgeous mountain district of Granada, las…
Granada – El Suspiro del Moro and Almuñécar
Legend has it that when the Moors were finally conquered and kicked out of Granada, Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Al-Andalus, paused at the southern mountain pass for a…