Generalife

The Generalife was a summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus. It is located directly east of and uphill from the palace complex in , .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: palace in Granada, Spain
  • Also known as: “El Generalife”, “Jardín del Conjunto del Generalife”, “Jardines del Generalife”, and “Palacio de Generalife”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Alhambra and Silla del Moro.

Photo: Bernd Untiedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a palace and fortress complex located in , Spain. is situated 370 metres west of Generalife.

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is situated 190 metres northeast of Generalife.

Castle
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is a palatial structure inside the… is situated 320 metres west of Generalife.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sacromonte and Albaicín.

Neighborhood
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, sometimes also called Sacramonte…

Quarter
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The , also spelled Albayzín, is a neighbourhood of , .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Generalife.

Generalife

Latitude
37.17695° or 37° 10′ 37″ north
Longitude
-3.58507° or 3° 35′ 6″ west
Elevation
789 metres (2,589 feet)
Established
13th century
Open location code
8C9R5CG7+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 196490785
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
8849185
Wiki­data ID
Q525811
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Generalife” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جنة العريف”
  • Asturian: “Generalife”
  • Bashkir: “Хенералифе”
  • Basque: “Generalife”
  • Bulgarian: “Хенералифе”
  • Burmese: “ဂျင်နရာလီဖီ”
  • Catalan: “Generalife”
  • Chinese: “赫内拉利费宫”
  • Croatian: “Generalife”
  • Czech: “Generalife”
  • Danish: “Generalife”
  • Dutch: “Generalife”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝeneralifo”
  • Finnish: “Generalife”
  • French: “Generalife”
  • French: “Généralife”
  • Galician: “Generalife”
  • Georgian: “ხენერალიფე”
  • German: “Generalife”
  • Greek: “Χενεραλίφε”
  • Hebrew: “חנרליפה”
  • Hindi: “अरीफ़ की जन्नत”
  • Indonesian: “Generalife”
  • Italian: “Generalife”
  • Japanese: “ヘネラリフェ”
  • Korean: “헤네랄리페”
  • Malay: “Janatularif”
  • Malayalam: “ജെനെറലൈഫെ”
  • Mingrelian: “ხენერალიფე”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Generalife”
  • Norwegian: “Generalife”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰੀਫ਼ ਦੀ ਜੰਨਤ”
  • Persian: “ژنرالیف”
  • Polish: “Generalife”
  • Portuguese: “Generalife”
  • Russian: “Хенералифе”
  • Serbian: “Хенералифе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Generalife”
  • Slovak: “Generalife”
  • Slovenian: “Generalife”
  • Spanish: “Generalife”
  • Swedish: “Generalife”
  • Turkish: “Generalife”
  • Ukrainian: “Хенераліфе”
  • Urdu: “جنۃ العریف”
  • Vietnamese: “Generalife”
  • Western Panjabi: “عریف دی جنت”

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