Granada Trip Overview
Discover the history and the legends of Alhambra Palace with an engaging self-guided audio tour on your phone. Receive a link via an email to download the app and the audio tour on your phone, prior to your visit, and admire the miraculous Moorish art and architecture and feel like a sultan.
Put on your headphones and explore the Patio de los Arrayanes characterized as the Parthenon of Moorish art, the Hall of the Abencerrajes, decorated with the unique muqarnas, where a tragic and bloody episode took place, the Patio de los Leones, the most iconic place in Alhambra and the Court of Sultana’s Cypress Tree, a place of forbidden love between a sultana and a knight, discovering why the Alhambra’s gardens were not only a place for relaxation but the heaven on earth.
This is an unmissable opportunity to learn the history of the most visited cultural site of Spain, in an entirely original way through the power of storytelling.
Ticket/entrance fee to the Alhambra Palace is not included.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Granada, Spain
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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Discover the history and the legends of Alhambra Palace with an engaging self-guided audio tour on your phone. Receive a link via an email to download the app and the audio tour on your phone, prior to your visit, and admire the miraculous Moorish art and architecture and feel like a sultan.
Put on your headphones and explore the Patio de los Arrayanes characterized as the Parthenon of Moorish art, the Hall of the Abencerrajes, decorated with the unique muqarnas, where a tragic and bloody episode took place, the Patio de los Leones, the most iconic place in Alhambra and the Court of Sultana’s Cypress Tree, a place of forbidden love between a sultana and a knight, discovering why the Alhambra’s gardens were not only a place for relaxation but the heaven on earth.
This is an unmissable opportunity to learn the history of the most visited cultural site of Spain, in an entirely original way through the power of storytelling.
Ticket/entrance fee to the Alhambra Palace is not included.
Stop At: The Alhambra, Calle Real de la Alhambra, s/n Palacio de Carlos V, 18009 Granada Spain
Justice Gate: The tour begins at Justice Gate. Constructed in 1348, Justice Gate was one of the main entrances of the Alhambra Palace. It preserves its original iron gate and on its facade you can observe two par excellence symbols of Arabic culture: the hand of Fatima and a key with a cord.
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: The Alhambra, Calle Real de la Alhambra, s/n Palacio de Carlos V, 18009 Granada Spain
Patio de los Leones: The most iconic place at Alhambra Palace is located in the heart of the Palace of the Lions and is surrounded by arched galleries and 124 marble columns. The patio owes its name to the 12 lions which support the 12 sided inscribed and sculpted basin of the fountain and throw jets of water from their mouth. Made from different sculptors, the 12 lions are the core of different theories concerning their provenance and their symbolization.
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: The Alhambra, Calle Real de la Alhambra, s/n Palacio de Carlos V, 18009 Granada Spain
Court of Sultana Cypress Tree: Named after a famous old cypress, the court, part of Generalife, has a water stairway that is supposed to be the oldest staircase in the gardens, dated from Muslim period. The court and the cypress tree played a crucial role in the romance of a Sultana with a knight and later became the ideal scene for the novels of the 16th-century Spanish writer, Ginés Pérez de Hita
Duration: 7 minutes
