Albaicín
The Albaicín, also spelled Albayzín, is a neighbourhood of Granada, Spain. It is centered around a hill on the north side of the Darro River which passes through the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: historic neighborhood in Granada, Spain
- Also known as: “Albaizin”, “Albayzin”, “Albayzín”, “El Albaicin”, and “El Albayzín”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alhambra and Aljibe del Rey.
Alhambra
Photo: Bernd Untiedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world.
Aljibe del Rey
Photo: KJP1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Aljibe del Rey in the Albaicín district in Granada, Spain is a cistern dating from the 10/11th centuries. Built by the Nasrid rulers to provide water to their palace complex, al-Qaṣaba al-Qadīma, it is the largest cistern in the district.
Dar al-Horra
Photo: Pepepitos, Public domain.
Dar al-Horra is a former 15th-century Nasrid palace located in the Albaicín quarter of Granada, Spain. Since the early 16th century it was used as part of the Monastery of Santa Isabel la Real. It is now a historic monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sacromonte and Pajaritos.
Sacromonte
Neighborhood
Sacromonte, sometimes also called Sacramonte, is a traditional neighbourhood in the eastern area of the city of Granada in Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the six neighbourhoods that make up the urban district of Albayzín and borders the neighbourhoods of Albayzín, San Pedro, Realejo-San Matías, El Fargue and Haza Grande.
Cruz de Lagos
Neighborhood
Photo: Iblancasa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cruz de Lagos is a neighborhood, which is situated 3 km southwest of Albaicín.
Albaicín
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Granada, Granada, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.18157° or 37° 10′ 54″ northLongitude
-3.59467° or 3° 35′ 41″ westElevation
781 metres (2,562 feet)Open location code
8C9R5CJ4+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 3054870688OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Albaicín” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البيازين”
- Armenian: “Ալբայսին”
- Asturian: “Albaicín”
- Asturian: “Albayzín”
- Basque: “Albaicín”
- Basque: “Albayzin”
- Basque: “Albayzín”
- Bhojpuri: “अल्बाजिन”
- Burmese: “အယ်လ်ဘိုင်ဖင်း”
- Catalan: “Albaicín”
- Catalan: “Albayzin”
- Chinese: “阿尔拜辛”
- Croatian: “Albaicín”
- Croatian: “Albayzin”
- Croatian: “Albayzín”
- Croatian: “El Albalcin”
- Czech: “Albaicín”
- Czech: “Albayzín”
- Danish: “Albayzin”
- Danish: “Albayzín”
- Dutch: “Albaicin”
- Dutch: “Albaicín”
- Dutch: “Albaycin”
- Dutch: “Albayzin”
- Dutch: “Albayzín”
- Dutch: “Barrio de El Albaicín”
- Esperanto: “Albaicín”
- Esperanto: “Albayzin”
- Esperanto: “Albayzín”
- Esperanto: “El Albaicín”
- Finnish: “Albaicin”
- Finnish: “Albaicín”
- Finnish: “Albayzin”
- Finnish: “Albayzín”
- French: “Albaicin de grenade”
- French: “Albaicin de Grenade”
- French: “Albaicin De Grenade”
- French: “Albaicín de Grenade”
- French: “Albaicín”
- French: “Albayzín”
- Galician: “Albaicín”
- Georgian: “ალბაისინი”
- German: “Albaicin”
- German: “Albaicín”
- German: “Albaycín”
- German: “Albayzín”
- Greek: “Albayzín”
- Greek: “Αλμπαϊσίν”
- Hebrew: “אלבאיסין”
- Hebrew: “אלביסין”
- Hungarian: “Albaicín”
- Indonesian: “Albaicín”
- Italian: “Albaicin”
- Italian: “Albaicín”
- Italian: “Albayzin”
- Italian: “Albayzín”
- Japanese: “アルバイシン”
- Korean: “알바이신”
- Mingrelian: “ალბაისინი”
- Persian: “البایثین”
- Portuguese: “Albaicín”
- Portuguese: “Albayzín”
- Russian: “Альбайсин”
- Russian: “Альбасин”
- Serbian: “Албајзин”
- Serbian: “Албајсин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Albayzin”
- Slovak: “Albayzín”
- Slovenian: “Albayzín”
- Spanish: “Albaicin”
- Spanish: “Albaicín”
- Spanish: “Albaycin”
- Spanish: “Albaycín”
- Spanish: “Albayzin”
- Spanish: “Albayzín”
- Spanish: “Barrio de El Albaicín”
- Spanish: “Barrio del Albaycin”
- Spanish: “Barrio del Albaycín”
- Spanish: “El Albaycin”
- Spanish: “El Albaycín”
- Swedish: “Albaicín”
- Swedish: “Albayzin”
- Swedish: “Albayzín”
- Turkish: “Albaicin”
- Ukrainian: “Альбайсін”
- Urdu: “البیازین”
- Vietnamese: “Albayzín”
- “अल्बाजिन”
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