Castles · Tour

Alhambra Beyond the Palaces: Adarves Garden, Partal Pool and the Medina

This visit does not include the Nasrid Palaces. Everything else on the hill is in it, with an official guide. Said plainly, that is a shorter list and a longer walk. The Alcazaba, the Palace of Charles V, the Partal Palace and its pool, the public area of the walled city and the Generalife gardens add up to most of the ground inside the walls, and to the parts that explain how the place actually worked. The palaces are the showpiece. This is the machinery around them. The Alcazaba comes with the Jardín de los Adarves, laid out along the battlements, and the Puerta de las Armas, the gate the garrison used. The Partal has a portico standing over still water with gardens around it, and it is the oldest palace building left on the site. In the Medina the guide stops at the ruins of the kilns and workshops that produced the plasterwork and tiles, and on the dry ground beyond, at what is left of the palace of the Abencerrajes. The walk finishes beside the Palace of Charles V. No transfer is included, so you can stay on the hill afterwards for as long as the ticket allows.