The Alhambra - World heritage in Spain

The highlight of the Alhambra

• The famous tune of the guitar "Recuerdos de la Alhambra".
• A meaning called the castle which the Alhambra says Alan bra in Arabic, and is red.
• The Alhambra is considered to be the best masterpiece of Islamic architecture to exist built by wisdom and technology of the Islam.
• The Alhambra overflows in the delicate beauty that there is not to other European buildings.
• The stalactite of the ceiling of "the interval of two sisters" of the Alhambra is called "a hive" from the attentiveness, and it is one of the world's best buildings.

The Patio of Alhambra

It is right Arabian atmosphere itself as it is introduced when I induce a coming person to the world of the single night in thousands of nights.
It was built in the 14th century.

• A beautiful picture tile and a small arabesque design of Sala de Mexuar are wonderful. You can look around the white-colored houses together with the land of the Aruba Isin district from the good arched window of the view.
• Patio de los Arrayanes of Alhambra is made in the space where the green of a slim pond and the hedge of the God's will and human affairs flower (Arayaness) of both sides is orderly.
• Salon de Embajadores of Alhambra is the place where audiences of the King were performed most widely in the royal palace. In the room before the first person of a narrow passage abreast of the room of the fifth horizontal Carlos, writer Irving wrote famous book "Al Kahn bra story" in 1829.
• Patio de los Leones of Alhambra is known for beauty to be able to be called the best masterpiece of the Islam art.
• Sala de las Dos Hermanas in both sides of the courtyard of the lion and Sala de los Abencerrajes are made up by stalactite-shaped complicated decoration exhaustively. They have an arched ceiling of the beauty to hold breath.
• Mirador de Daraxa
  It is said to have enjoyed the prospects of the Granada circumference from here wife Daraxa of the king Boabdil. Because a room of the fifth Carlos was done forward in the Christian times of the next, a view did not work afterward.
• There is Jardines deI Partal backed by Torre de las Damas, and a pond and flowers are beautiful bright gardens.

Palace of Charles V

The Carlos V built the palace where I posted the courtyard of the circle midmost of a square building of the renaissance style in the place that was next to the royal palace.
The surroundings of the courtyard are corridors of 2 stories, and in the first floor, Doric order, the second floor differ from the Islamic architecture in attraction at the pillar of a simple design of the Ionic style of architecture.
It is Alhambra Museum, the second floor now as a prefectural art museum in the first floor. It is it here with the one gathering ground of the Granada international music dancing feast day held in summer because sound effects are good.

Alcazaba

There is known as a red fort, and it is a fortress building of the thirteenth century when it is the oldest in the Alhambra. I become abolished Haji, but it is said that there was a tower of 24 for the heyday now.
From existing Torre de la Vela, you can look around the splendid panorama from Granada city, Generalife distantly to Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Gardens of the Generalife

Generalife Palace is the garden which imaged heaven of the Islam in the summer in an imperial villa of the business built as a villa of the King in the early days in the 14th century.
Because there surrounds the huge garden, and there is a fountain everywhere, it is alias called "the palace of the water". A romantic atmosphere is going to be overwhelmingly popular with women. Abundant water drawn by Sierra Nevada and several hundred kinds flowers are impressive scenery. The Generalife palace deals in on foot very widely in half day, and scenery opens. There is really refreshing beauty with the states that a fountain goes up to a cypress tree pricking with the heavens, a cut hedge, a flower blooming in profusion, the pond of big things and small things.

The El Albayzin

The El Albayzin district is protected by the characteristic scene of the white wall in a township for the oldest Muslim in the Granada city.
From sun Nicholas observation station in the El Albayzin district where a white family links the eaves, you can enjoy the Alhambra and the splendid scenery of Sierra Nevada Mountains to the full.
The setting sun and the night view of the Alhambra to look at from here are beauty to hold breath.

Recommendation information of the Alhambra

• A night visit to the Palacios Nazaries is recommended at 11:30 from 10:00 at money of fire the night of Saturday between March from October.
  It is a highlight of the Alhambra. ?iThe ticket is sold at 8:15 p.m. at 7:45 p.m. by open?j
• The Alhambra and the outskirts recommend foot sightseeing of around 5 hours. The highlight is plentiful.

A ticket reservation of the Alhambra

Pre-order of the Alhambra

• Because of a limited entrance in the Alhambra, I recommend that pre-order does an entrance ticket of the Alhambra on (from June to the beginning of September) and a Spanish holiday in a tourist season.
  
• Banco Bilbao screw Japanese nutmeg Al strange Talia of a Spanish bank does an online reservation of a ticket of the Alhambra.
• From the Spanish foreign territory, the BBVA branch of each country treats it.
• When you visited the Alhambra without a ticket reservation, to day ticket sale from 8:00 a.m., you had better perform it early in a ticket window.

Opening information of the Alhambra

1. Opening of a window is to the front for one hour of closing time for 30 minutes of an opening time.
2. The contents of the publication are changed without a notice. Please do reconfirmation before the use.
3. Because "Palacios Nazaries" becomes the entrance in time system, it is necessary to reserve the walk-in of "Palacios Nazaries" in the case of Alhambra ticket reservation.
4. Two kinds of tickets, daytime district and night department are sold. You can observe a Palacios Nazaries, Al casaba and the Gardens of the Generalife in "the daytime department" ticket, but you can enter only the Palacios Nazaries by the ticket of "the night department".
5. By ticket of "the daytime district", reservation time of "Palacios Nazaries" the walk-in to an Alhambra site automatically the part of the morning(8:30-13:30) and the part of the afternoon(14:00 and later). If it is time to fall under each, entrance is possible anytime in Alhambra site.
6. The Palacios Nazaries has to enter the Alhambra site early to have to enter it within 30 minutes from reservation time.
7. Attention is necessary on that day because there can be a line in the window to receive a ticket.

Reporting by The Spanish government sightseeing station

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