Granada - Alhambra Hill

From the Plaza Nueva the Cuesta de Gomérez runs up some 250m/275yd to the Puerta de las Granadas, the main entrance to the Alameda de la Alhambra. The gate was built in 1536, replacing an earlier Moorish gate.

From the Puerta de las Granadas the Cuesta Empedrada climbs steeply up through the Alhambra Park, which covers a large area on the slopes above a gorge between the Alhambra Hill and Monte Mauror, to the Puerta de la Justicia at the entrance to the Alhambra proper, a massive gateway built in 1348, during the reign of Yusuf I.

On Monte Mauror, above the road to the right of Puerto de las Granadas, can be seen the Torres Bermejas, Granada's oldest defensive work. The towers were given their present form in the 13th century, but were originally part of an earlier stronghold.