ď Ž There are three widely known types of paella:
Valencian paella (Spanish: paella valenciana), seafood paella (Spanish: paella de marisco) and mixed paella (Spanish: paella mixta), but there are many others as well. Valencian paella consists of white rice, green vegetables, meat (rabbit, chicken, duck), snails, beans and seasoning. Seafood paella replaces meat and snails with seafood and omits beans and green vegetables. Mixed paella is a free-style combination of meat, seafood, vegetables and sometimes beans. Most paella chefs use calasparra or bomba rices for this dish. Other key ingredients include saffron and olive oil.
Visiting Baeza
The old town
The National Park- Sierra de Cazorla, Segura Y las Villas
The largest park in Spain. ď Ž This Nature Reserve includes most of the Sierras de Cazorla
y Segura Biosphere Reserve (designated as such by the UNESCO in 1983 and with an area of 190,000 hectares). Over 200,000 hectares of incredible beauty spots make up the Cazorla, Segura y las Villas Nature Reserve, where species which are unique in the world live. This is the largest protected area in all of Spain. We are talking about 200,000 hectares of mountains, situated to the Northeast of JaĂŠn, with luxuriant forests of pine groves with unique species, such as the Cazorla violet, the Valverde wall lizard, a daffodil which claims to be the smallest in the world and a unique carnivorous plant.
The Guadalquivir River The Guadalquivir rises here (in Ca単ada de las Fuentes, at a height of over 1,300 metres) as well as the Segura. The reserve includes lands belonging to 23 townships of the regions of Cazorla, Segura, Quesada and Las Villas. The reserve has the privilege of being home to species such as the mountain goat, the deer and the wild boar, as well as muflones, which can be contemplated in a partially free state in the 'Collado del Almendral' hunting reserve.
Swimming in the river
The Lake
The Alhambra The Alhambra (Arabic: ءاْلَحْمَرءاء, Al-Ḥamrā' , literally
"the red one"), the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra (ءاْلَقْلَعُة ٱْلَحْمَرءاُء, Al-Qal'at al-Ḥamrā' , "the red fortress"), is a palace and fortress complex constructed during the mid 14th century by the Moorish rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus, occupying the top of the hill of the Assabica on the southeastern border of the city of Granada, now in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
ď Ž The Alhambra's Moorish palaces were built
for the last Muslim Emirs in Spain and its court, of the Nasrid dynasty. After the Reconquista by the Los Reyes CatĂłlicos ("The Catholic Monarchs") in 1492 some portions were used by the Christian rulers. The Palace of Charles V, built by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1527, was inserted in the Alhambra within the Nasrid fortifications.
ď Ž After being allowed to fall into disrepair for
centuries, the Alhambra was "discovered" in the 19th century by European scholars and travelers, with restorations commencing. It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well known Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Granada- Alhambra
Palacio de los Nazarios
The Sultan’s Garden
Corpus Christi’s Day in Granada
ď Ž Corpus Christi is the Catholic holiday in honour of
the presence of the body of Christ in the holy water. It is celebrated throughout Spain and is held in either May or June depending on when Easter occurs. To calculate the next Corpus Christi date, look for the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday (the eighth Sunday after Easter) and you’ll know when the fiesta is set to begin in towns and villages throughout Andalucia.
A solemn and magnificent procession bears the consecrated host through the streets. Although Corpus Christi is celebrated everywhere in Andalucia, it is most famous in Granada, where this religious celebration fused with the annual “féria” so many years ago.