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Generalife Gardens History and Culture. A recreation house of the sultans of Granada, surrounded by orchards and gardens, these newly created, together with the amphitheater at the entrance, which hosts every year some of the shows of the Music and Dance Festival.
The Monumental Complex of the Alhambra and Generalife represents a valuable cultural landscape, a great environmental unit, formed by different units of vegetation capable of accommodating a rich and varied biodiversity.
- When Is The Best Time to Visit Generalife?
- About Generalife
- Generalife Historical Gardens
- The Generalife Palace
- A Symphony of Water, Space and Scents
- Later Modifications
- Views from Generalife
- How Do You Visit Generalife?
- What UNESCO Says About The Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
Spring is undoubtedly the best time to see the gardens. In the first days of May, there are magnificent displays of wisteria, bedding plants and thousands of iris and other bulbs. The perfume from hundreds of roses in bloom and jasmine, wafts through the air mingled with that of the orange blossom from trees in the allotment or huerta.
Roses round the door The Generalife are the oldest Hispano-Muslim gardens in Europe. The name, Generalife has nothing at all to do with the insurance company of a similar name, it comes from the term Yannat al-Arif, which means the architects garden and it was owned by the sultan. Part of the gardens were allocated for growing food crops and herbs ...
Generalife and Alhambra gardens patio Generalife comprises a set of historical gardens that date from the Nazrid period in the 13th century, right through the Christian period up to the 19th century. Every era has modified or added to the gardens and the adjoining palace.
Generalife iris The original gardens surrounded the country house, the Generalife Palace. The palace as you see it today was the creation of Muhammad III (1302 – 1309) who adapted the former building that dates from the 12th and 13th centuries. You will notice that the Generalife Palace lacks the decorations and adornments for which the Alhambra it...
Generalife and Alhambra gardens view Surrounding the Palace are four orchards, on terraces, and, in Nazrid times, the surrounding land would have been a pasture. Today it is a set of gardens from different periods. The essential essence of a Muslim garden has not been lost. The re-created Hispano-Muslim garden, near the auditorium, is what might be...
Generalife formal boxed hedges The gardens in the immediate vicinity of the Palace were modified by the 15th and 16th century Christian monarchs to reflect their, more Catholic, tastes. They are an impressive, rather than pretty, part of the gardens with stately Cyprus trees, boxed hedges and trim shrubs.
One of the charms of the Generalife are the vignettes that you discover when peering through the Arab arches and windows in the walls. You will be seeing the same views as was enjoyed by the sultans and their close entourage, a magnificent sweep over the Albaicin and the rivers Doro and Genil with the Alhambra Palace in the foreground.
A visit to Generalife is included in the General Day Visit fee to the Alhambra Palace. There are also tickets, Gardens Day Visit and Gardens Night Visit that allow access to the Generalife and restricted access to the Alhambra Palace. Tickets should be pre booked online to prevent disappointment and a long queue at the turnstiles. You could easily ...
Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of Granada. To the east of the Alhambra fortress and residence are the magnificent gardens of the Generalife, the former rural residence of the emirs who ruled this part of Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries. The residential d...
The Generalife (Spanish pronunciation: [xe.ne.ɾa.ˈli.fe]; Arabic: جَنَّة الْعَرِيف, romanized: Jannat al-‘Arīf) was a summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus. It is located directly east of and uphill from the Alhambra palace complex in Granada, Spain.
Jan 27, 2024 · The monumental complex of the Alhambra stand out for the abundance and variety of their historic gardens. Many of these gardens trace back to the Nasrid period, offering valuable insights into life of the Al Andalus. They are also considered the oldest gardens in Europe.
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The Generalife became a leisure place for the kings of Granada when they wanted to get away from the official affairs of the palace. It was built in the 13th century and it was redecorated by the king Abu I-Walid Isma'il (1313-1324), as it is explained by an inscription that dates from 1319.
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