The Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Granada is a repository of legal history housed in a building constructed specifically for its collection in the former garden of the Casa del Padre Suárez. You can identify the site by its location…
Carrera del Darro Walk
This scenic walk along the Darro River highlights historic landmarks like the 11th-century El Bañuelo hammam, Nasrid residences, and surviving 16th-century stone bridges.
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1. Archivo de la Real Chancilleria de Granada
2. Iglesia de San Gil y Santa Ana
The Iglesia de San Gil y Santa Ana is marked by a slender Mudéjar tower, which rises high enough to be seen from the surrounding streets. This church stands beside the Darro River on the site of the former Aljama Almazora mosque. Built…
3. Puente de Espinosa
The Puente de Espinosa is a single-arched stone bridge that crosses the Darro River along the Carrera del Darro. It features a barrel vault with a nine-meter span and is characterized by its masonry arch and high parapet walls reinforced…
4. El Bañuelo
El Bañuelo is recognizable by the modest, unassuming house built directly over its entrance on Carrera del Darro. Beneath this private dwelling lie the remains of an eleventh-century hammam, the oldest and most complete Arab bathhouse in…
5. Puente del Cadi
The Puente del Cadí is a solitary hexagonal tower on the bank of the Darro River, marked by the distinct remains of an arched vault springing from its side. Historians identify this structure as the remnants of the Puerta de los Tableros,…
6. El Maristán de Granada
The Maristán of Granada sits on the banks of the Darro River, marked today by its restored south portico and remnants of a central courtyard. Sultan Muhammad the Fifth founded this hospital in thirteen sixty-five as a place of charity and…
7. Casa de Zafra y Centro de Interpretación del Albaicín
The Casa de Zafra is a fourteenth-century Nasrid residence distinguished by its understated exterior, which hides an elaborate interior courtyard centered around a rectangular reflecting pool. Unlike many monumental structures, this house…
8. Convento de Santa Catalina de Zafra (Dominicas)
The Convento de Santa Catalina de Zafra stands along the Carrera del Darro, marked by a Renaissance façade featuring a sculpture of the saint and the coat of arms of the Zafra family. Founded in fifteen twenty by the widow of Hernando de…
9. Castril Palace
The Casa de Castril is distinguished by a highly decorative Renaissance facade that features a complex arrangement of reliefs and Doric columns. Constructed in fifteen thirty-nine, this palace sits along the Carrera del Darro in a district…
10. Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro y San Pablo
The Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro y San Pablo is marked by a distinctive Renaissance stone façade that sits along the Carrera del Darro, directly below the Alhambra. Built between fifteen fifty-nine and fifteen sixty-seven by the…
11. Paseo del Padre Manjón
The Paseo del Padre Manjón follows the Darro River as a wide, open walkway nestled between the steep slopes of the Alhambra and the historic Albaicín neighborhood. While its official name honors Andrés Manjón y Manjón, a local priest and…
12. Palacio de los Cordova
The Palacio de los Córdova stands at the start of the Cuesta del Chapiz, marking the point where the urban climb toward Sacromonte begins. This Renaissance-style mansion, distinguished by its stone facade and surrounding terraced gardens,…