Granada travel guides & articles

All 18 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Granada — newest first.

Where the flamenco is still real in Granada's Sacromonte

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Where the flamenco is still real in Granada's Sacromonte

A walk up Granada's cave quarter: which zambra to book, which viewpoint is worth the climb, and how to tell a family cave-home from a coach-party stage.

Walking the Nasrid Palaces in a Granada September

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Walking the Nasrid Palaces in a Granada September

The rooms are roofed, the gardens are not, and your whole day bends around one half-hour printed on a ticket: how to plan a September visit to Granada's Nasrid Palaces properly.

What a Day Inside Granada's Alhambra Actually Gives You

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What a Day Inside Granada's Alhambra Actually Gives You

The Nasrid half hour, the gardens, the viewpoints and what each of them costs, plus how to build a whole Granada day around one timed slot that will not wait for you.

Fitting Granada Into an Andalusia Trip Without Losing a Day

Fitting Granada Into an Andalusia Trip Without Losing a Day

Everything else in Granada bends around one timed half-hour at the Alhambra. Plan the day around that slot and a single day, or a night and a half, is enough to see the city properly instead of skimming it.

Granada from the Market Stall to the Free Tapa

Granada from the Market Stall to the Free Tapa

Buy the fish at San Agustín in the morning, then eat your way down to Plaza Nueva by night, with what it costs and which doors are actually open on the day you go.

Where to Sleep in Granada on Your First Visit

Where to Sleep in Granada on Your First Visit

Fifteen places to sleep in Granada, on the pine-shaded Alhambra hill and in the flat streets behind the cathedral, with an honest note on who each one suits.

Seville to Granada in a Morning, Alhambra by Afternoon

Seville to Granada in a Morning, Alhambra by Afternoon

Train, coach, hire car or private driver: how to cross Andalusia and still walk into the Nasrid Palaces on time.

Why October Is the Month to Book Your First Granada Trip

Why October Is the Month to Book Your First Granada Trip

Mild afternoons, a thinner monument circuit and two hour changes that reshape the week: how to plan a first Granada visit in October 2026, starting with the one ticket that sells out anyway.

How Granada Spends Corpus Week, Caseta by Caseta

How Granada Spends Corpus Week, Caseta by Caseta

Granada's biggest week of the year happens nowhere near the Alhambra. Here is how the fair, the procession, the cartoons and the casetas actually work, and which ones will let you in.

Walking Granada Again After the 2026 Earthquakes

Walking Granada Again After the 2026 Earthquakes

Monuments are reopening on their own timetable, and some routes have changed. How to plan an autumn 2026 trip to Granada without losing a day to a locked door.

Book the Alhambra Before Anything Else in Granada

Book the Alhambra Before Anything Else in Granada

Three hundred people enter the Nasrid Palaces every half hour, each on a named ticket that cannot be transferred, so a Granada trip starts with the booking rather than the flight.

How Many Nights Granada Really Needs Beyond the Alhambra

How Many Nights Granada Really Needs Beyond the Alhambra

The Nasrid Palaces admit you for thirty fixed minutes. The rest of Granada asks for more than that, night by night, and the one-night plan is where it falls apart.

The Day Trips That Earn Granada a Third Night

The Day Trips That Earn Granada a Third Night

Three nights in Granada leaves two clear mornings, and the roads out of the city reach snowline, gorge, cave and sea before lunch. This is which road to take, and what it honestly costs.

How to Get Inside Granada's Walled Carmen Gardens

How to Get Inside Granada's Walled Carmen Gardens

The Albaicín hides its orchards, cisterns and fountains behind blank white walls. Here is which carmen doors actually open, when, and what it costs to walk through them.

Sierra Nevada: The Ridge Above Granada

Sierra Nevada: The Ridge Above Granada

How to see Granada's mountain backdrop properly — from the miradores where it frames the Alhambra to a summer gondola ride into its snowfields.

The Alhambra at Night: Nasrid Palaces Under the Moon

The Alhambra at Night: Nasrid Palaces Under the Moon

When the day-trippers clear out, Granada's fortress opens for a handful of quiet hours where the reflecting pools go still and the carved walls finally get to whisper.

The Last Free Tapa: Inside Granada's Unwritten Bar-Hopping Ritual

The Last Free Tapa: Inside Granada's Unwritten Bar-Hopping Ritual

In Granada the tapa still comes free with your drink — here's how to work the crawl like a local, bar by bar, without ever paying for the plate.

The Last Free Tapa: Inside Granada's Unbroken Bar-to-Bar Ritual

The Last Free Tapa: Inside Granada's Unbroken Bar-to-Bar Ritual

In a country where the free tapa has mostly gone the way of the peseta, Granada still feeds you for the price of your thirst — here's how to drink and eat your way across the city like a local, one plate at a time.