The call to prayer was last sung from the minarets of Granada and the Alhambra in 1492 but you can still hear its haunting tones in the flamenco music the city is so famous for. The minarets may be gone, but the arrival of the catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella in the same year that Columbus discovered the Americas, could not remove the clear Moorish influences from this last bastion of Islamic Spain.
No monument to the power of the sultans is more famous than the Alhambra which sits atop the hill of the Assabica looking out over Granada. If the Alhambra is what brings the tourists to Granada though, it is probably the winding lanes of the Albaicin or the tapas bars of Calle Elivra or Calle Navas that keeps them here. Despite the excellent and cheap bus network Granada is a city particularly suited to being explored on foot so dive in and enjoy it. When your feet get
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