Pomegranate

These photos document my two visits to Granada, Queen Isabel II's favorite city, the last city occupied by the Moors, and home of La Alhambra.

  "It is a city where the one in love writes better than anywhere the name of his love upon the ground."

-Federico García Lorca

 gypsy caves (below)

"'An African paradise set under the Sierras like a rose preserved in snow’" is possibly the best description that Granada will ever be awarded.'
- Mark Eveleigh, photojournalist.

 

"Granada, city of enchantment and fantasy." -  Washington Irving

 

  "Were we to visit a sole city in Spain, this one should be Granada."- Ernest Hemingway

 "Give him charity, girl, as there is nothing worse in life than being blind in Granada."

- Francisco Alarcón de Icaza, Venezuelan writer.

  "Every inquisitive traveler keeps Granada in his heart, without having even visited it." 

- William Shakespeare