Itinerary · 8 days · 41 places
8 Days in Andalusia
Eight days in southern Spain: three in Seville between the Alcázar and Triana, two in Córdoba around the Mezquita, three in Granada with a whole day for the Alhambra — the three cities sit on a single rail line, and you travel in the mornings.
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The route on the map
The plan, day by day
Day 1Arriving in Seville
Arrival in Seville
Hotel check-in
The car-free Santa Cruz quarter lies right behind the Alcázar; the cathedral and Alcázar are five minutes away on foot.
Plaza de España
The semicircular brick building of the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, with canal, bridges and a tiled bench for every Spanish province.
Evening: Calle Betis in Triana
The riverside street opposite the old town, from where you see the illuminated Giralda rising above the Guadalquivir.
Day 2Alcázar & cathedral
Real Alcázar de Sevilla
The palace built by Moorish craftsmen for Castilian kings, with Mudéjar stucco, the Hall of Ambassadors and the gardens behind.
Archivo General de Indias
The old merchants' exchange holds the records of Spain's colonial administration, including documents by Columbus and Magellan.
Catedral de Sevilla
The largest Gothic church in the world, built on the footprint of the Almohad mosque, with the tomb of Christopher Columbus in the south transept.
Giralda
The former minaret now serves as the bell tower; you climb it via 35 ramps built for the muezzin to ride up on horseback.
Barrio de Santa Cruz
The former Jewish quarter with lanes two metres wide, the patios of Calle Agua and the Plaza de Doña Elvira.
Evening: Plaza del Salvador
In front of the Baroque Church of El Salvador, everyone stands out on the square with a glass of beer in the evening rather than inside the bar.
Day 3Guadalquivir & Triana
Torre del Oro
The twelve-sided Almohad watchtower on the riverbank, with a small naval museum inside and a terrace above the Guadalquivir at the top.
Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza
The bullring, begun in the 18th century, can only be entered on a guided tour, which takes in the arena, stables and infirmary.
Mercado de Triana
Market hall on the foundations of San Jorge Castle, with fish stalls, olives and tile shops around the edges.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla
Murillo and Zurbarán hang in the former Mercedarian convent, whose church with its ceiling frescoes is itself the highlight.
Casa de Pilatos
16th-century noble palace whose patio combines Mudéjar tiles, Gothic balustrades and Roman statues in a single courtyard.
Setas de Sevilla
The wooden mushroom over Plaza de la Encarnación carries a walkway on top, from where you look down over the old town.
Evening: Alameda de Hércules
The long square with the Roman columns is Seville's nightlife district; the terraces only fill up after ten.
Day 4To Córdoba: Mezquita & Judería
Onward to Córdoba
Hotel check-in
Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba
Eight hundred columns with red-and-white double arches from the Caliphate era, with the 16th-century Christian cathedral built right into the middle.
Córdoba's Judería
The old town quarter with the synagogue of 1315 — one of Spain's three surviving medieval synagogues — and whitewashed patios.
Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos
The fortress of the Catholic Monarchs, with Roman mosaics in its hall and gardens of pools and clipped hedges.
Puente Romano
The sixteen-arched bridge over the Guadalquivir; from the middle you see the Mezquita rising behind the city wall.
Evening: Calleja de las Flores
The narrow flower-decked lane north of the Mezquita, whose view through the archway is lit up and almost empty in the evening.
Day 5Patios & Medina Azahara
Palacio de Viana
A noble mansion with twelve patios one after another, each planted differently, from the orange-tree courtyard to the climbing-plant courtyard.
Plaza de la Corredera
Andalusia's only square arcaded plaza, with a market under the arches in the mornings.
Templo Romano de Córdoba
Eleven re-erected marble columns of the imperial temple, right next to the town hall and visible from the street.
Medina Azahara
The palace city of Abd al-Rahman III eight kilometres west, with reception hall, horseshoe arches and a museum on the slope below.
Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba
Finds from the Iberian to the Moorish era, with the excavated tiers of the Roman theatre in the basement.
Evening: Plaza del Potro
The square with the colt fountain mentioned by Cervantes in Don Quixote, with terraces by the old inn.
Day 6To Granada: cathedral & Albaicín
Onward to Granada
Hotel check-in
Catedral de Granada
Renaissance cathedral with a white rotunda as its main chapel, built over the city's great mosque.
Capilla Real de Granada
The burial chapel of Isabella and Ferdinand, whose lead coffins lie in the crypt beneath the marble monument.
Alcaicería
The narrow lanes of the former silk bazaar, now lined with shops selling lamps, tiles and spices.
Carrera del Darro
The lane along the little River Darro, past the El Bañuelo Arab baths, with the Alhambra above the row of houses.
Albaicín
The Moorish quarter on the hillside, a web of cobbled lanes, cisterns and cármenes behind high garden walls.
Evening: Mirador de San Nicolás
The viewpoint from where, after dark, the floodlit Alhambra stands out against the Sierra Nevada.
Day 7The Alhambra day
Alcazaba
The Alhambra's oldest fortification; from the Torre de la Vela you see the whole Vega as far as the Sierra Nevada.
Palacios Nazaríes
Court of the Myrtles, Court of the Lions and Hall of the Ambassadors with honeycomb stucco and Koranic friezes — entry only at the minute printed on your ticket.
Palacio de Carlos V
The circular courtyard inside the square Renaissance building that Charles V had placed in the middle of the Moorish fortress.
Generalife
The Nasrid summer garden with the Court of the Water Channel, cypress hedges and views back over the palace roofs.
Carmen de los Mártires
A garden park below the Alhambra with pond, peacocks and French parterre, free to enter and usually empty.
Paseo de los Tristes
The riverside path beneath the Alhambra walls, where funeral processions once passed on their way to the cemetery.
Evening: Sacromonte
The cave quarter above the Darro, where zambra flamenco shows take place in the whitewashed cuevas in the evening.
Day 8Last morning and departure
Monasterio de la Cartuja
Charterhouse on the edge of town whose sacristy of stucco, marble and tortoiseshell is considered a high point of Spanish Baroque.
Mirador de San Cristóbal
Viewpoint by the old Nasrid wall, from where the Albaicín, Alhambra and Sierra Nevada line up in a row.
Departure from Granada
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