08 May 09

The Alhambra Palace

Somewhere incredible we love from across the Ryanair network.

PATIO DE LOS ARRAYANES

It is, with the possible exception of the Taj Mahal in India, the most famous Islamic monument in the world, and the most visited by non-Muslims. 6,000 tourists a day enter the 9th-century palace gates in Andalusia, Spain, to enjoy the sudden contrasts of light and shade and subtle uses of spaces created by the Moorish caliphs and their architects. Almost perfectly preserved and at once bedazzling and sublime, with spectacular views from its hilltop location of Granada below, the ancient neighbourhoods of the Albaicîn and Sacromonte on either side as well as the Sierra Nevada mountains beyond, the Alhambra is truly somewhere to visit before you die – especially now in May and June before the hot summer.
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