A Full Day in Granada: Private guided tour of the Alhambra and the Spanish-Muslim monuments included in the Dobla de Oro. Tour in English

Choose to visit Granada, and don’t miss the Alhambra, the most visited of all monuments in Spain. But don’t do it the way other people do: missing out on the entire half of Granada. And the history of one half cannot be understood without the other. In order to fully appreciate the splendor of them both, there is nothing better than a combined visit, accompanied by the best guides who specialize in our history and cultural heritage.

The experience includes a private guided tour of the Alhambra, meaning that you and your family or group of friends can enjoy the Alhambra all on your own with a professional guide who has years of experience and a passion for the job of guiding. You won’t have to worry about buying tickets or arranging visits to the different areas in the palace city. On this guided tour, it is all included, and the itinerary is specially designed to adapt your tour to the times when the Nasrid palaces are open.

Throughout this exciting experience, we will visit magical places inside the Alhambra like the Patio de los Leones and the Patio de los Arrayanes, and we will follow in the footsteps of the sultans and kings who once dwelled within them. We will also visit the beautiful gardens of the Generalife and the Partal, and you will understand why visiting the Alhambra is a unique, memorable experience which everyone who visits Andalusia an Spain should live. 

What better way to round off the tour than to visit Granada itself, the city that gazes up at the Alhambra from the banks of the Darro River, leading to the Alhambra across its bridges. During the Nasrid era, the Albaicín was filled with palaces belonging to noblemen and rich silk merchants. 

We will visit some of these manorial homes and Arab palaces, which have remained quite intact within the Albaicin neighborhood despite the rather unsturdy materials with which they were built. We will get an overview of the heritage and influences that can currently be seen in our Andalusian culture several centuries later, including our customs, dwelling types, use of space, tastes and thinking...

You will get a close look at traditional hammams, or Arabic baths, where the cleanliness of body and spirit held importance above and beyond just a simple custom. And you will learn about the history of the silk trade in Granada and the caravanserai. 

This full-day experience will entice you to reflect upon a multicultural, overlapping history in a place which carefully conceals and preserves the city layout of the old Spanish-Muslim city that woos us all to dream.

It is a unique opportunity you won’t want to miss, ideal for visitors and travellers who want to make the most of their stay in Granada, and for anyone who wants to spend an unforgettable day travelling in from Seville, Cordoba or Malaga.