The Albaicin

As you can probably tell by the posts so far, most of the interesting stuff in Granada has to do with the Arabic history. The Albaicin is the oldest part of Granada. On a hillside with a beautiful view of the Alhambra, the Albaicin is an amazing neighborhood of white houses called Carmens. This entire area is protected and any remodel has to follow the certain style and form of the other houses. Its pretty wild. The streets are cobblestone and some of the roads are barely five feet wide. Luckily we had a guide because it would be too easy to get lost in this neighborhood for hours.



Our guide took us to the first monastary(i think thats what its called) and we bought some of the leftover communion bread from the nuns. It was really interesting how the nuns are not allowed to see anyone. We had to knock on the door and ask for the bread through a wooden turn-table. THey put the bread on it and spun it around so we could grab it and then we in turn put money on for them. The bread was the thin wafer stuff and it was pretty blah. I'm not sure why we were all excited about it in the first place. Well, thats about it for my Albaicin trip. Its more of a "you had to be there" experience. Hopefully the pictures will help. Oh, one more cool fact, the Albaicin is THE place to live in Spain. Thought that was cool to know. Talk to you later.