Running Pilgrim...

   Granada was perhaps one of the city we were most looking forward to visiting during our journey through Andalusia. Nestled at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, it was the final stronghold of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula and the capital of the Nasrid Kingdom, which survived for more than 250 years until 1492. Its greatest treasure, the Alhambra, is one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in Europe and a remarkable reminder of the sophistication of Al-Andalus. Here, Moorish palaces, Christian monuments and narrow medieval streets tell the story of a city shaped by the meeting of two very different civilisations...