Albaicin

The Albaicin is one of Granada’s hidden gems that is really not that hidden. It celebrates one of its most beautiful sceneries. It starts at the foot of La Alhambra and it houses the Mororish/Muslim population of the city. A strong Muslim population since almost the 8th century has inhabited it. It has the areas teterias, which are our hookah bars back home. The greatest thing is that the aroma from the hookahs and natural teas is authentically being in a different part of the world.

I had the pleasure, once again of climbing, the city of Granada to end up by the famous homes of the rich of Granada las Carmen are a type of large homes that have huge gardens in the middle. Almost like jungles these gardens are maintained by large quantities of water, goes to show what money will buy. Heading even higher, almost parallel height to La Alhambra. When we got to the top the sun was setting. The city began to light up and breath-taking views could be seen from at top of the city. One thing that I realized was that many of these houses and the way this part of the city looked like was the same architecture of many cities in Latin America. When I asked if this was a coincidence I was given this answer: “almost 70% of the people that left for the new world came from this region, of course these people would take their architecture with them, architecture based upon Roman, Spanish, and Muslim influences.” Lesson taught and learned. All together beautiful views of the cathedral, and the veins of lights that run down the Albaicin all over the city of Granada.