Granada (240,0000 inhabitants), is a wonderful city of Andalusia in Spain, it lies at nearly 700 meters of height to the feet of the mountain range of Sierra Nevada at the confluence of the Genil and Darro rivers, the city extends partially in plan and partially on the hills of the Alhambra and the Albaicin.  

The zone of Granada anciently was inhabited from the Iberians, then the Romans colonized the south of Spain and founded the city of Iliberis. In the 8th century the Arabs who occupied the Iberian peninsula gave the curent name to the city. Beginning from 1031, Granada was the capital city of an independent emirate, the town more important of Moorish Spain and the last Arabic stronghold to surrender to the catholic reconquista in 1492. Of the last Arabic domination important architectonic testimonies remain, the most important are undoubtedly the Alhambra or real citadel, the Generalife (campaign residence) and the Moorish quarter of Albaicín. In 1984 the Alhambra, the Generalife and the quarter of Albaicín have been declared from the Unesco World-Heritage of the Humanity.  

Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of Granada. To the east of the Alhambra fortress and residence are the magnificent gardens of the Generalife, the former rural residence of the emirs who ruled this part of Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries. The residential district of the Albaycín is a rich repository of Moorish vernacular architecture, into which the traditional Andalusian architecture blends harmoniously.