Free tour Environment of the Alhambra

Possibly preparing your trip to Granada you have wanted to buy tickets to the Alhambra and have found that they have been sold out for months. Unfortunately I can not get you the tickets but if I can offer a route where we will visit the main areas of interest that can be visited without a ticket, such as… Puerta de la Justicia, majestic on the hill of Sabika testifies with its monumentality and proportions of meaning triumphant that the Nasrids wanted to endow their defensive structures. Plaza de los aljibes, a place full of importance for the history of flamenco because it is the place where Federico García Lorca, together with Manuel de Falla organized the first Cante Jondo contest in Spain. It also provides us with exceptional views of the Alcazaba towers and the Mexuar courtyards. The Palace of Carlos V, building that unites in its layout the symbolic forms of the earthly and the celestial, or what is the same of the square and the circle. All this in a constructive and decorative program to glorify one of the most important figures of his time. Church of San María de la Alhambra, built on the site of the old mosque where one of the most tragic conspiracies in the history of the kings of the Alhambra Convent of San Francisco, first burial place of Isabel la Católica was consumed while she was under construction the Royal Chapel and that throughout its history had different uses until reaching its current, National Parador. Carmen de los Mártires, built near the dungeons where thousands of Christian captives suffered martyrdom, at one time it was only a church, then a convent where San Juan de las Cruz became a priority and currently the site of a beautiful bourgeois palace where many Granadans usually celebrate Your weddings Royal Room of Santo Domingo, protocol room of the Nasrid sultans but also a place of rest and delight that with its plasterwork, ceramic sockets and Arabic inscriptions makes us feel to be in one more room of the Alhambra, and the entrance is totally free IMPORTANT: To get to the meeting point you must take the microbus C30, C31 or C32 in Plaza Isabel la Católica, and ask the driver to get off at the Puerta de la Justicia.