Alhambra photo essay

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Full disclosure here. When we first stood at the high point of San Nicolás Plaza to look across at the hill on which the Alhambra is built, I wondered quietly to myself what the fuss was all about. After all, we were staring at Spain's most poeticised historical palace and fortress sprawled in front of the purple-blue Sierra Nevada. Which, incidentally, in May still showed veins of snow.

Full disclosure here. When we first stood at the high point of San Nicolás Plaza to look across at the hill on which the Alhambra is built, I wondered quietly to myself what the fuss was all about. After all, we were staring at Spain’s most poeticised historical palace and fortress sprawled in front of the purple-blue Sierra Nevada. Which, incidentally, in May still showed veins of snow.

But all I saw were crenellated walls and towers, an amalgam of roofs, and tall pointy cypresses. Fast forward to The Tour, and our jaws were dropping to the floor. It cannot be taken lightly, this tour. You need to book waaaaay ahead, and it takes the best part of a day out of your itinerary. But it will have you entranced.

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