Granada Activities & Vacation Guide

Granada offers the visitor numerous attractions, including not only the famous Alhambra Palace, but also a range of cultural sites and activities, restaurants, nightlife, flamenco, schools, and enchanting neghborhoods.

Mediterranean Cooking & Wine School
Albaycin

Savor a gourmet cooking vacation in Granada, Spain. Relax and enjoy fine Mediterranean cuisine at our comfortable vacation apartment rental and cooking school in Europe´s most scenic and historic travel destination.

You will stay in the Mediterranean Cooking School´s own comfortable apartment rentals in the historic Albaycin district of Granada, overlooking the Alhambra Palace and Church of El Salvador. We can also arrange accommodation in nearby hotels of character for your stay during culinary programs.

The Mediterranea Cooking School offers a combination of detailed cooking demonstrations and hands-on culinary instruction in a charming and well-equipped teaching kitchen. The School will customize programs for small groups. APL is a member of the International Assoication of Culinary Professionals.

Granada neighborhoods to visit:

Culinary Vacation Programs

2007 Spain cooking vacation, wine school, and culinary tour programs

Mediterranean Cookery, 4-day program, starting November 16, 2006, January 4, January 18, March 22, April 5, 2007 including visits to food markets, Renaissance palaces, olive culture museum, and culinary school degustacion

Sephardic Cuisine, starting January 11, 2007 including a tour of the Alhambra Palace

Mediterranean Wine School: March 29, April 12, May 3, 2007

Walking Food Market Tours plus Daily Food and Wine Tastings November & December, 2006 and January, 2007 at Casa Azahar. Call +34 958 201 557, +1 902-482-8360, or e-mail to reserve.

Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada

This acclaimed festival dates back to the symphonic concerts performed at the Palace of Charles V during the Corpus Christi holidays since 1883 and the “Cante Jondo” (flamenco singing) Contest convened at the Alhambra in 1922 by García Lorca, Falla and other intellectuals and artists. With the denomination as Festival, since 1952, it has made itself known and appreciated for the extraordinary settings where its concerts and performances are held.

"In fact Granada has everything to offer, from the Alhambra and the Albaicin to the intimate corners of nineteenth century Romanticism; from the enchatment of Oriental art to the dawn of the Gothic; from the flowering of the Renaissance to the exuberant brilliance of the Baroque. And if, from the point of view of the Arts, this rich diversity is overwhelming in its vitality without the dominance of one unilateral theme, Nature for her part provides analagous contrasts. In some places there is ruggedness, in other a delicacy full of half-tones; here is a city neither of the mountain no of the plain. The Sierra and the lowland intertwine in a stange arabesque and this gives the landscape both strenth and extraordinary variety. From the foot of the mountains to their summit there is an ascent of more than three thousand meters and from the region of perpetual snow it is possible to descend, in barely an hour, to a coast where every tropical fruit abounds. It would be difficult to find a land richer in variety and contrasts or one evoking emotions of greater depth and diversity."

Antonio Gallego y Burin, Granada: An Artistic and Historical Guide to the City