Travels in Andalucia - Visiting Alhambra Palace in Grenada #36
April 21, 2019 by Mothership Adrift Travel and Sailing | Language: EN Play Time: 00:13:46 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
To visit the Alhambra Palace in Spain, you need to be very organised and buy your tickets in advance and make sure you arrive early to see the Nazri Palace and gardens. It is worth the effort and like a scene from Game of Thrones.
On our first attempt to enter the Alhambra Palace, the tickets are sold out and it was raining so the second attempt we bought our tickets in advance and treated ourselves to a Hotel!
We try a traditional Andalucian breakfast of tostada and then head off to the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. When we arrive we did not realise it takes 15 minutes to get to the entrance to the Nazri Palace and you have a time allocated on your ticket which you have to stick to. So we run!
Inside the Nazri Palace, there are many rooms , each with a different purpose for the 24 sultans that were living there with their wives and families. Not all sultans died a natural death however.
After the Moors left peacefully and Ferdinand and Isabella moved in, it was here that the voyage of Christopher Columbus was endorsed which led to him landing in the Americas.
The “Generalife” is separated from the main palace, it was a summer palace where a wide variety of vegetables and fruit were grown and it was a place to relax in the beautiful gardens.
Water was a symbol of power as it was scarce but the whole palace had plenty, supplied by a natural river source that even had enough pressure to keep the fountains going.
We wandered past the Medina which was another whole city within the palace walls where arts and crafts were made as gifts to the court and other visitors.
The Alcazaba was the tower that contained the military lodgings and around the edge of the wall was yet another garden of Italian style. It is unbelievable how many gardens there are in the citadel.
From the top of the tower, you get a spectacular view of the city of Grenada. This is where the bell tower is situated and great place to spot any enemies but the bell was also a way to notify the city of when to initiate the next shift for irrigating the crops.
The Alhambra Palace is well worth a visit, it reminded of a scene of Game of Thrones and we could see why they chose locations in Spain to film this series such as The Bridge at Cordoba as shown in our last episode.
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