Granada

Granada, Spain is completely incredible and you should all go.

Obviously, the Alhambra is the main attraction and is everything I thought it would be after seeing pictures of it and learning about it in my Spanish Art class. 

It really is so beautiful because from far away it looks like this:

And it has courtyards like this:

It has doorways like this:

And windows like these:

that have views to this:

Then it has ceilings like this:

And it is all decorated with artwork and Arabic calligraphy like this:

Can you believe someone carved that by hand? I can’t. Pretty cool to learn about Arabic art and all of it’s profundity and elaborateness and then go look at it.

But the rest of Granada is beautiful, too. It has the romance people imagine when they think of Spain. It has the small ally-ways, little cafés and roads that look like this:

But one of my favorite parts about Granada was that it has all that old European beauty we all love but it is also really famous for art that looks like this:

I love cities that can appreciate the collision between the old world and the new one and my friends and I finished the day talking about that and other things in a lovely tetería over hot tea, hookah, and falafel. Yum.