Castle · Granada, Spain

The Alhambra

Nasrid palaces, a fortress and a summer garden on one hill, entered in half-hour slots booked weeks ahead.

The Alhambra is in Granada, and this is Granada — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 580 km across and 200 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it half a day · Open year-round · 37.176°N, -3.588°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Granada · Andalusia · Spain

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Other places in Granada

Albaicín

White lanes on the hill facing the Alhambra, best walked upward and finished at San Nicolás.

Quarter

Capilla Real

Where Ferdinand and Isabella are buried, next to the cathedral that was built to outshine it.

Church

Journeys that stop here

Atlantic to the Mediterranean

Across Iberia and along the coast

23 days

The Iberian Circle

Two countries, one peninsula, no flights

23 days

The White South

Andalusia and the Maghreb's long shadow

15 days

The record

What this atlas holds about The Alhambra, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Castle
Give it: half a day
Season: Open year-round
Where: 37.176°N, -3.588°E
In: Granada