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Alhambra and Generalife Small-Group Guided Tour in Granada. Skip the line
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Walking Tours
from $59.71 per adult
Skip the Line: Alhambra and Generalife Gardens Half-Day Tour
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Bus Tours
from $48.62 per adult
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Alhambra and Nasrid Palaces Ticket with Audioguide
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Monuments and Memorials
from $44.96 $39.48 per adult
Flamenco Show in Palacio de Los Olvidados, Granada
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Theaters
from $20.01 per adult
Hiking through hanging bridges and canyons in Los Cahorros (Granada)
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Walking Tours
from $38.99 per adult
Skip The Line Alhambra and Nasrid Palaces Guided Tour
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Private and Luxury
from $59.71 per adult (price varies by group size)
Alhambra, Nasrid Palaces, Generalife and Alcazaba Private Tour in Granada
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Private and Luxury
from $91.39 per adult (price varies by group size)
Arabian Baths Experience at Granada's Hammam Al Ándalus
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from $77.98 per adult
5 Day Guided Tour Andalusia and Toledo from Barcelona
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Bus Tours
from $792.01 per adult
Malaga to Granada: skip-the-line at Alhambra & Nasrid Palace - for cruisers only
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Bus Tours
from $118.72 per adult

Top Attractions in Granada

1. The Alhambra

Historic Sites • Architectural Buildings

Realejo - San Matias

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Open now

Admission tickets from $39.45

A Moorish center and citadel with over four hundred years to create a masterpiece to Islam and to architecture.

2. Generalife

Historic Sites • Architectural Buildings

Realejo - San Matias

Admission tickets from $39.45

This is a UNESCO site flanked by a long pool, fountains, flowerbeds and pavilions.

3. Albayzin

Neighborhoods • Historic Walking Areas

Admission tickets from $24.35

It is an historical part of Granada reflecting its Medieval Moorish past of narrow winding stone streets filled with…

4. Mirador de San Nicolas

Historic Sites • Historic Walking Areas

Albaicín

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Open now

by ColombiaJuanSe

You can see history before your eyes, at an already great historical site, immersed in thousands of years of cultural…

5. Nasrid Palaces

Castles

Realejo - San Matias

Admission tickets from $39.45

by Brucestewart

Part of the Alhambra complex of buildings dating from the time the Moors inhabited this area of Spain.

6. Basílica de San Juan de Dios

Churches & Cathedrals

Centro - Sagrario

by hendrik_vankets

This church honours Saint John of God who founded an order with the sole purpose to give health care to the poor.

7. Sacromonte

Neighborhoods

Albaicín

each cave tracks the history of cave dwellers, the land, caves around the world and includes flora and fauna…

8. Royal Chapel of Granada

Historic Sites • Architectural Buildings

Centro - Sagrario

Built onto the side of the cathedral it is the final resting place of the significant and influential Queen Isabella…

9. Science Park (Parque de las Ciencias)

Science Museums • Observatories & Planetariums

Figares

by JimFinPortland

The Bio Dome features fish and other sea life, animals and plants primarily from the zone around the equator.

10. Monasterio Cartuja

Historic Sites • Religious Sites

by MarshallGulch

From room to room the drama unfolds in pictures regarding the ancient monks of this order.

11. Carrera del Darro

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Realejo - San Matias

this river is the life line for old Granada and the secret behind hundreds of years of its survival.

12. Paseo de los Tristes

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Albaicín

by Bluesman2009

This was built between 1559 and 1567 over the mosque of the Baths.

13. Saint Jerome Monastery

Religious Sites

Centro - Sagrario

by AleksHuddersfield

The building is currently the abode of the Sisters of St Jerome.

14. Fundacion Rodriguez Acosta

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Realejo - San Matias

The museum houses an important collection of human and animal exvotos fabricated from iron dating from 1 c. BC found in…

15. La Alborea

Theaters

Albaicín

by wwglobetrotr

Intimate performance gives insight to the flamenco culture, where you see the performers up close and gain a true…

16. Plaza de San Nicolas

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Albaicín

The Alhambra is decorated in unique tiles, series of patios with water features and acres of the Generlife, the country…

17. Museo Cuevas del Sacromonte

Speciality Museums

Albaicín

by Travelerist123

The open air museum is spread over 11 separate caves, each recreating the life of the dwellers, as it once was in…

18. Carmen de los Martires

Gardens

Realejo - San Matias

They have ancient palm trees that are over seventy feet high and sections of ancient aquaducts that are over a thousand…

19. La Madraza

Historic Sites

Centro - Sagrario

Located near the Cathedral, the exterior is a magnificent and elaborate piece of Spanish baroque architecture, hiding a…

20. Alcazaba

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Realejo - San Matias

Admission tickets from $39.45

by steeryourway

After 13 centuries from its erection, it stands as a monument to arab engineering and to the vision of arab rulers of…

21. Mirador San Miguel Alto

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Lookouts

Albaicín

by LoveToTravel73

It's quite a climb but well worth it once you see the views.

22. Calle Elvira

Neighborhoods • Historic Walking Areas

Albaicín

Elvira is a power cable linking special Grenada experiences together, and the welcome is genuine and personal.

23. Palacio de los Olvidados

Speciality Museums

Albaicín

Setting - a 15th century building in the Albaicin heart of the city, adapted to an intimate and absorbing theatrical…

24. Mezquita Mayor de Granada

Religious Sites

Albaicín

The Grand Mosque was opened in 2003, 500 years after Isabel replaced the Grand Mosque with the Granada Cathedral and…

25. Granada Cathedral

Churches & Cathedrals

Centro - Sagrario

This huge cathedral, the 4th largest in the world, is built on the site of the city’s ancient mosque in 16th century.

26. Museum of Alhambra

Speciality Museums

Realejo - San Matias

Absorb centuries of royal history and impressive multicultural architectural influences, in this enchanting…

27. Abadia del Sacromonte

Religious Sites

Albaicín

It was founded with a goal at a cultural syncretism aimed at combining Christian and Arabic knowledge.

28. Plaza Bib-Rambla

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Centro - Sagrario

Surrounded by 19th Century town houses, shaded by leafy lime trees - and in the midst of a large pedestrian zone - the…

29. Plaza Nueva

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Albaicín

Admission tickets from $34.09

This classical plaza has become a tourist centre with all types of restaurants, souvenir shops as well as tourist gifts.

30. Mirador de San Cristobal

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Albaicín

Dotted with plenty of restaurants and comes to life at sunset when full of locals and atmosphere.

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