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Walks around Granada
In the previous pages we have shown some indoubtedly important
reference points. In fact, these are the ones most normally
found on a sightseeing tour, however Granada also has other
magical places to get away from it all. One can lose oneself,
for example, in the paseo de los Tristes, cross the
bridge in the direction of the Rey Chico and from there, walk
up to the fuente del Avellano through a type of glaced
Arcadia. There is surely no other stroll in the world so shaded,
leafy and, as the sun brushes the trees, so redolent of green.
From this part of the river one can also climb up to the Alhambra
via its natural and most ancient access point, the puerta
de Armas. Although continuing your walk up the cuesta
de los Chinos will not disappoint, leading as it does
to a place without equal outside Granada, la Mimbre.
Beyond the city of Granada itself, a visit to nearby Fuentevaqueros is worthwhile, here you can visit Lorca's birthplace and get
to know the magical countryside of the vega (Granada's
plain): the poplars recalling verses from fortgotten poems
or the disquieting architecture of the tobacco drying sheds.
Once more in the city of Granada, fans of Lorca will want
to visit the huerta de San Vicente (his Granada home)
as well as Víznar, complete with the famous
ravine where the poet met his death, nearby is Aynadamar,
a spring which seems to shed tears of pearl.
From the very centre of the city, stroll down to the carrera
de la Virgen de las Angustias, Granada's undisputed patron
saint, before reaching the boulevards of the Salón and la Bomba which, following the river Genil, lead
to the start of the road to the mountains and the puente
Verde.
Having crossed the river in the other direction, the Violón boulevard maintains a paradoxical vision of an old public
washing place sitting opposite the ultra-modern palacio
de Congresos. A few away and almost lost within the modern
buildings which sourround it, one finds the hermita de
San Sebastián, an ancient Muslim monastery and
the Arab palace of Alcázar Genil.
What effort it takes for the light to leave Granada!
It weaves between the cypresses of conceals itself under water.
Federico García Lorca
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