Alhambra Private Tour & Granada City Description
If you are staying in the city of Granada, you MUST take an Alhambra Private Tour. You need to get to know the Alhambra as well as Granada’s city center, which is unique! This fabulous walking tour has everything you need to spend a different day and marvel at the cultural and architectural richness of this beautiful city.
The private walking tour of Granada is one of the most complete walks you can find. It includes entrance to the palatine city of Alhambra, as well as a tour of the center of Albaicín and the Sacromonte. You will also enjoy a view of the Cathedral and The Royal Chapel.
Venture with your private official tour guide who is a true connoisseur of the area and its history. Let yourself be captivated by its anecdotes and the Nasrid tradition, the last Muslim kings who stepped on the Iberian region.
This Alhambra Private Tour will let you explore the best of Granada!
Alhambra Private Tour & Granada City | Points of Interest & Landmarks
Firstly, you will meet your private guide at the Gate of Justice of the Alhambra, the place to enter this magnificent red fortress. If your hotel is walking distance, we can also arrange a walking pickup.
Secondly, you will tour its gardens, traveling with your guide through time to understand the culture of the Nasrid Dynasty. Learn about its passions, its code of honor and why they decided to take the Hill of the Sabika as a settlement
Have time to visit the three Nasrid Palaces that are the Mexuar, the Comares and the one from The Lions. The Lions is renowned for the fountain in its courtyard, which holds many secrets that your guide will reveal.
You will also walk through the Generalife gardens, full of fruit trees and vegetables. You will let yourself be surprised by the El Partal Palace, and you will fall in love with the Renaissance palace of Charles V.
Once the 3-hour tour of Alhambra is over, it will be time to delve into the heart of Granada. Have a chance to walk its streets, to meet its people and taste some of the local food. You will reach the Bib-Rambla Square, where the Fountain of the Giants is located.
A few meters from there is the Cathedral and the Royal Funerary Chapel. It is the resting place of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, also of her daughter Joanna the Mad and the husband of this Phillip the Handsome.
Then you will walk through the streets of the two most famous neighborhoods of Granada. Enjoy the Albaicín and Sacromonte. The last part of your private tour will be a panoramic view of the entire city from the San Nicholas Viewpoint.
If you are coming from out of town, check out our same tour with private transportation included!
