Granada On: About Granada, Spain: tips and tricks for the urban explorer, extended visitor or people simply living in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Book Details
Author(s)
JJ Merelo
ISBN / ASIN
B01AF7WIHU
ISBN-13
978B01AF7WIH2
Sales Rank
#433,479
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Do you really know Granada?
If you have been here and visited the Alhambra, maybe the Cathedral, and had some sangría and tapas, the answer is no.
Granada is an old city with a lot of history behind, most of it true. This makes it maybe a bit more unknowable that other cities. Every corner, every neighborhood, every river and every street is different. And it is impossible to describe it all, but this book, which is the result of the urban walks of the author in the more than thirty years he has been living there, is a first attempt to talk about the parts and features the city that are usually ignored and forgotten by the usual, "Granada in one or two days", guides.
This guide will attempt to cover graffiti in this city that is known worldwide for them; talk about the machines and things every geek wants to know, have a look at the university inside the monuments, the freemasons in Granada and the rests of the real estate bubble.
This book is an invitation to wrap yourself in the city and discover your own routes, more than a box of squared-off entertainment that just scratches the surface. And it is about art, but also about people. And a bit, about history.
Instead of using the classical division by districts or historic periods, this book is rather a Borgesian non-exhaustive and non-exclusive list of chapters devoted to built things, the cycle of water, things people do like graffiti, comic conventions and eventually the university, which is all that and then some.
If you have been here and visited the Alhambra, maybe the Cathedral, and had some sangría and tapas, the answer is no.
Granada is an old city with a lot of history behind, most of it true. This makes it maybe a bit more unknowable that other cities. Every corner, every neighborhood, every river and every street is different. And it is impossible to describe it all, but this book, which is the result of the urban walks of the author in the more than thirty years he has been living there, is a first attempt to talk about the parts and features the city that are usually ignored and forgotten by the usual, "Granada in one or two days", guides.
This guide will attempt to cover graffiti in this city that is known worldwide for them; talk about the machines and things every geek wants to know, have a look at the university inside the monuments, the freemasons in Granada and the rests of the real estate bubble.
This book is an invitation to wrap yourself in the city and discover your own routes, more than a box of squared-off entertainment that just scratches the surface. And it is about art, but also about people. And a bit, about history.
What to expect
Instead of using the classical division by districts or historic periods, this book is rather a Borgesian non-exhaustive and non-exclusive list of chapters devoted to built things, the cycle of water, things people do like graffiti, comic conventions and eventually the university, which is all that and then some.
