Granada is beutiful! I´ve spend the last few days wandering around seeing things in the city. My neighbor in the campground, Axel, has accompanied me on these trips. It´s great to have someone to see things with.
One of the most incredible sights was the cathedral of Granada. It is huge and very beautiful. At the side of the cathedral is the tomb of Ferdinand and Isabel. You can actually go down into the grotto where their caskets are. For me, that was the strangest feeling. To be standing alongside Ferdinand and Isable. It kind of makes the more than 500 years since they died seem like a much shorter time.
We also wandered around the Abaicin. This was were the moors lived up to the conquest and even afterwards for some time until they were expelled. I´m reading a very detailed book about the rebuilding of the Alahambra and it mentions one of the Moor workers who was baptized and lived out his live in a house next to the Puerta Elvira. Well, the gate is still there and probably so is his house.
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