Alhambra Palaces, Granada

Lovely, but if you are going wear proper walking shoes! The different buildings are all spread out over the hillside and the tour guide told us at the end we had walked over 4km! And it’s mostly on cobblestones. Kinda wish I knew that at the start of day, but anyway…

It was pretty spectacular.

The majority of the palaces were Islamic architecture, but before that there were roman ruins, and even a Jewish fountain, which is the only figure of animals in the whole complex since Muslims don’t create effigies (they took the creating false idols commandment very seriously after their reformation).

The gardens were lovely too, with huge amounts of flowers and even lots of little multicoloured chilli bushes! Which I stupidly didn’t take a picture of, but here’s a fountain.