Granada

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It lies at the foot of the Sierra Nevada at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro, the Genil, the Monachil and the Beiro, at an average elevation of 738 metres and about fifty kilometres from the Mediterranean coast. With 233,532 residents in 2024 it is the twentieth-largest city in Spain. The area was settled in ancient times by Iberians, Romans and Visigoths. Granada became a major city of Al-Andalus in the eleventh century and, from the thirteenth, capital of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim-ruled state on the Iberian Peninsula, until the Catholic Monarchs conquered it in 1492. The Alhambra palace and citadel, the Albaicin quarter and Mudejar, Renaissance and Baroque buildings survive, and the University of Granada has an estimated 47,000 undergraduates.