How To Get To The Entrance Of Alhambra On Foot Or By Bus

How To Get To The Alhambra By Bus

You can take the red minibus Alhambra Bus, which leaves every 10 minutes from Plaza Nueva or Albayzin to the Alhambra. The stop where you need to get off is called 'Generalife'.

Tickets cost is 1.20 euros. If you plan to stay in Granada several days and will be taking a bus seven or more times, you would be better off buying a Travel Card called Bonobus, so a trip will cost you only 70 cents.

You can buy the bus ticket directly on the bus.

How To Get To The Alhambra on Foot

The most desirable way is to walk down the Cuesta de Gomerez from the Plaza Nueva, enter the grounds of the Alhambra through the Cuesta de Gomerez and subsequently through the beautiful Gate of Justice, after passing through the woods.

It's a very pleasant walk that takes less than a quarter of an hour.

The walk starts with the Gate of the Pomegranates, at the end of the Cuesta de Gomerez. The gate was built in 1536 in place of the Old Gate.

Bib Albuxar (Gate of Glad Tidings). To the right and below rise the Towers of Bermejas, erected in the eleventh century on an earlier fortification to reinforce the walls.

entrance to the alhambra from bibarambla

You will be surprised by the number of trees in the Alameda, in an outlying area that was intended only for defending purposes and not for recreation. These trees were planted in the sixteenth century, when the fortress had lost much of its defensive functions.

Just after the Puerta de las Granadas are three routes that you can take:

The main road leads to a small square containing the Fountain of Tomato. The monument is dedicated to the writer Angel Gavinet Granada.

To the left you will see, among the trees, the Gate of Bibarambla. It was once part of a wall that was demolished in 1894 and also known as the Gateway of the Ears and Hands, as it was here where the hands and ears of those convicted by the courts were hung.

Passing to the right you will reach the Bermejas Towers, and to the left you will reach the main entrance of the Alhambra. Before this you will have gone through the Pillar of Charles V, a fountain whose water hydrants represent, according to tradition, the three rivers of Granada: Beyro, Darro and Genil.

You will enter the walled enclosure of the Alhambra through the Gate of Justice (fourteenth century), which has two arches from its outer side: at the top of the arch you will see an Arab hand, the hand of Fatima, whose five fingers represent the basic principles of the Islamic faith: divine unity, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage to Mecca.

Inside, also at the top of the arch, is a key, which appears on other gates, representing the power that God gave to Muhammad to open and close the gates of Heaven.

Once inside you will find the Puerta del Vino, near the entrance of the Alhambra and the ticket office.

Alhambra Tickets

Information about where and how to get a ticket to the Alhambra in Alhambra tickets.

We Answer Your Questions On How To Get To The Alhambra

What time does the first bus, route 3, depart from the Granada Bus Station?

The first departure of the bus route 3 from the bus station is at 7:00, the frequency of the buses in normal traffic conditions is approximately every 13 minutes