Granada Combo: Granada Walking Tour Including Cathedral and Royal Chapel
Granada, Spain
Trip Type: Sightseeing & City Passes
Duration: 2 hours
Uncover Granada’s fascinating architecture and history on this 2-hour walking tour. With an expert guide, stroll through the city’s ancient streets. Pose for photos by the rose-hued arch of Corral del Carbón, a 14th-century coal yard, before traversing the labyrinthine alleyways of Alcaicería, Granada’s old silk market. Then, visit Granada Cathedral, Spain’s first Renaissance church, and the flamboyant Royal Chapel. Learn about Ferdinand and Isabel, and discover how their legacy helped shaped the city.
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Uncover Granada’s fascinating architecture and history on this 2-hour walking tour. With an expert guide, stroll through the city’s ancient streets. Pose for photos by the rose-hued arch of Corral del Carbón, a 14th-century coal yard, before traversing the labyrinthine alleyways of Alcaicería, Granada’s old silk market. Then, visit Granada Cathedral, Spain’s first Renaissance church, and the flamboyant Royal Chapel. Learn about Ferdinand and Isabel, and discover how their legacy helped shaped the city.Meet your guide in central Granada, then set off on foot to begin your walking tour. Make your first stop at Corral del Carbón. Pause by its elaborate horseshoe arch and hear how it was originally constructed in the 14th century as a coal yard and an inn for merchants.
Continue on to Alcaicería, once a magnificent Moorish bazaar where silk was made and sold. Follow your guide through the warren of streets, perusing colorful stalls selling souvenirs as you pass. Learn how Alcaicería flourished under Nasrid rule, when Granada was one of the richest cities in Europe, and hear how it was rebuilt after a devastating fire in the 19th century.
Next, make for Granada Cathedral and Royal Chapel (Capilla Real). Have your camera ready as you approach these two impressive landmarks that sit next to one another.
Listen to your guide share fascinating details about these Granada showstoppers, then head inside the cathedral. Admire the gold and white interior as you walk down the nave toward the altar, and discover the story behind the building’s incomplete frontage.
Then, head next door and enter the Royal Chapel. Be regaled by stories of Ferdinand and Isabel who conquered the Muslim kingdom of Granada, thus completing the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Learn how they commissioned the chapel as their mausoleum, then see the monuments that house their remains.
After around two hours, your tour concludes outside the chapel.
Continue on to Alcaicería, once a magnificent Moorish bazaar where silk was made and sold. Follow your guide through the warren of streets, perusing colorful stalls selling souvenirs as you pass. Learn how Alcaicería flourished under Nasrid rule, when Granada was one of the richest cities in Europe, and hear how it was rebuilt after a devastating fire in the 19th century.
Next, make for Granada Cathedral and Royal Chapel (Capilla Real). Have your camera ready as you approach these two impressive landmarks that sit next to one another.
Listen to your guide share fascinating details about these Granada showstoppers, then head inside the cathedral. Admire the gold and white interior as you walk down the nave toward the altar, and discover the story behind the building’s incomplete frontage.
Then, head next door and enter the Royal Chapel. Be regaled by stories of Ferdinand and Isabel who conquered the Muslim kingdom of Granada, thus completing the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Learn how they commissioned the chapel as their mausoleum, then see the monuments that house their remains.
After around two hours, your tour concludes outside the chapel.
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