Granada was formerly known as the "jewel in the crown of the moor." The town is near the Sierra Nevada, where high mountains and spectacular places give a majestic air.

Granada has been colonized by native tribes in prehistoric times, being known as Ilbyr.

When the Romans colonized southern Spain have build there own way the city and called it Illibris. Granada name was given by the Arabs in the Eighth century when they invaded the peninsula. Granada was the last city fell under the occupation of an Arab Christian in 1492, under the reign of Queen Isabel of Castile and her husband, Fernando de Aragón.

Palace of Carlos V - Palacio de Carlos Quinto - is a Renaissance building situated on the hilltop Assab, in the medieval Alhambra. Renaissance building was started in 1526 by Pedro Machuca, but was never finished.

The ground floor of the palace is the National Museum of Hispano-Muslim Art, with collections that include decorative Moorish period in Spain driving - glassware, ceramics, decorative strips.

On the upper floor of the palace of the Provincial Museum of Art, devoted primarily to artists from Granada. Among the artists represented include Jacobo Florentino Alonso Cano, Pedro de Mena and Shiloh Diego, Alonso Cano, Juan Sánchez Cotán Fray Pedro de Raxis, Pedro Anastasio Bocanegra, Juan Ramírez, and Juan de Sevilla.

On the east side of the palace was built in the early Church of Santa María 1581 - 1618, the site of a former mosque.

Generalife - Palacio de Generalife or Architect's Garden - are located east of the Alhambra and was the summer palace of Moorish kings Nasrid dynasty.

Alhambra - Moorish rulers of the dynasty Nasrid residence - is in northern palace of Carlos V. Construction began during the reign of Yusuf I (1333 - 1354) and was completed during the reign of Mohammed V (1354-1391). Like other secular Moorish buildings, the exterior is simple and captures the interior decoration of the premises developed and complicated plan.

Granada Cathedral dates from 1523 and is located in the heart of the Muslim.

Albaicin quarter - or Albaicin Albayzin - is an old Arab district, with narrow winding streets, lined with houses in the fourteenth century.

Royal Chapel - Capilla Real de Granada - is a mausoleum that houses the remains of the Spanish Catholic Kings - Los Reyes Católicos.

Royal Chancellery: former court building is an architecture that marks the transition from Renaissance to the Baroque style.

Virgen de las Angustias Church: a church is not very high, but within carefully done, with many religious and decorative objects, many of them very old.