The Alhambra opposite
From the terraces the palace faces you across the valley, from a northern angle few people photograph.
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Not necessarily. The building houses a working research institution, so which spaces open to visitors and when follows its schedule and can be restricted at times. Check before you climb, since the Albaicín route is steep and not worth it to find a closed door.
Both are in the Albaicín and both show the Andalusi house, but Dar al-Horra is genuinely Nasrid, from before the fall, while Casa del Chapiz is Morisco, built after it. Seeing both shows the continuity and the break in the same architecture.
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Two adjoining sixteenth-century Morisco houses on the Albaicín slope, today a single complex holding the School of Arabic Studies of Spain's national research council. The houses were built after the fall of Granada by Morisco families, Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity, and that is what makes them a rare architectural document: a traditional Andalusi plan with courtyard, pool and arcades, still being built after Islamic rule ended. You find Mudéjar detail alongside Christian elements. The real value of a visit is in the gardens and courtyards, and in the outlook: from the terraces the Alhambra faces you across the valley, one of the better angles on the palace from the north. The building is a working research institution rather than a full museum, which means access may be limited to parts of it and that hours follow the school's schedule. Check before going.
From the terraces the palace faces you across the valley, from a northern angle few people photograph.
An Andalusi plan with courtyard, pool and arcades, built after 1492 for families forced to change their religion but not their culture.
The building has housed a Spanish research institution devoted to Arabic studies for decades.
Cuesta del Chapiz, Albaicín, Granada