Castles · Tour

Private Alhambra with an Official Guide, Meeting at the Mural Map

A private visit with an official guide working for one group and no one else. Guiding inside the Alhambra is licensed, and it changes what you get. An official guide has the standing to explain the building properly, which here means the history and the legends together, because at the Alhambra the two have been tangled since the day the Christians took it and started retelling its stories. The route covers the whole site: the Nasrid Palaces where the sultans held court, the Alcazaba that came before them, the Generalife palaces above, and the gardens that connect them. The thing worth understanding before you go up is that the Alhambra is not a palace and not a fortress. It is a walled city with palaces inside it, ringed by defensive towers, and it had its own water supply, its own mosque and its own streets. Walk it privately and that reads clearly. Walk it in a crowd and it looks like a list of famous rooms. The group meets at the Alhambra mural map.