ALHAMBRA

This place is so special and beautiful and I have lots of photos so doing a separate report. You might want to goggle it. It's very interesting.
We had a booking for 4pm which meant we had time for a nice wee rest after lunch. We had a 3 hour walking tour through this UNESCO world heritage palace and fortress site. We walked through the beautiful shady gardens first then moved through another security check, passports and scanners, to get into the castle grounds. The first records of construction are 9th century and we saw areas of present archeological digging uncovering buildings from Roman times. Its got a really interesting history because of all the changes and additions over the centuries. The area within the castle grounds are 11 hectares plus the gardens. One of the original buildings is now a hotel. In the 13th and 14th centuries the site was transformed from castle into a fortified palace complex. We walked through 3 of them. There is a lot of restoration work happening today. Oh my gosh we could hardly walk and taking photos was really difficult because of the thousands of tourists. Heaps of them Asian. We hadn't seen any Asian tourists till we got to Seville now there are bus loads. Rog and I enjoyed this place and even though it was a lot of waking, (with some steps,) in the heat of the afternoon there were lots of shady areas and quite a lot of time we were indoors. So glad we both have good knees!!!! 3 of our group struggle with all the walking because of knees and one lady is just really slow dont know why.. Enjoy the photos.Read more