We started our real Andalusian Adventure in Granada - a beautiful town nestled in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and home to one of the most beautifully preserved and restored palaces from the times when the Moors ruled that part of Spain, dating back to 1238. It's now quite rightly a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The drive from Alicante took us through some very arid countryside with magnificent rocky mountainous outcrops and ranges. I had booked us into the Hotel Casa Morisca https://www.hotelcasamorisca.com/ for two nights and they had provided 27 photos with directions for how to get there. We had to get past the bollards for the residential-only Old Town area and navigate narrow streets but we had a warm welcome and a parking space waiting for us at the hotel! The guy on reception was a car nerd so that went down well and the hotel was great - overlooked by the Alhambra and full of Arabic influences. From this location we could walk to all the key attractions and plenty of restaurants. The temperature was nudging 40 degrees in the afternoon, peaking at around 5pm so it was worth planning to be back at the hotel in the air-conditioning for the latter half of the afternoon.
The Alhambra is extremely popular and has a limit of only 6600 tickets sold per day. I had purchased our tickets online back in Oz some weeks ago. We spent about three hours there and for the Nasrid PaIace there is a strictly enforced timed ticket entry. It's hard to put words to the beauty of this place. The architecture, engineering, art and gardens are truly magnificent. Put it on your bucket list!
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