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Granada is located at the foot of the (Sierre Nevada) at Spain's highest mountain-massif. With charming, narrow streets filled with flowers and typical taverns to have some of that well-known Trevelez ham and local wine. The long-time capital of Moorish Andalusia it has to offer the most significant reminds of this era in Spanish history, with the world-famous Alhambra. The cathedral with its five naves is considered to be the most important Renaissance building of Spain's built in the transition period of Gothic to Renaissance.
The caves in the mountain of Sacromonte for centuries gypsies lived in them today many of them have been changed for the locals and tourists. They were decorated with ceramics and traditional copper-works. There is a host of festivities depending on the season in which you happen to be on holiday in the city. You can choose from a wide variety of fiestas on the 2nd of January is the (Fiesta de la Reconquista) (festival of the recon query). On 3rd of May is the Day of the (Cross) where crosses are raised and decorated with flowers. In May is the city's International Theater Festival. At the end of June celebrates its International Music and Dance Festival one of the most important in all Europe with performances in the palaces of the Alhambra and in the open-air theater in the Generalife gardens.
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