This day started with a visit to a privately run Jewish Museum in Granada. it is a work of passion by a couple who feel the powerful need to preserve something of Jewish heritage in a place where it has been extirpated. They have a community of 3 families and put out a sandwich board sign each day to point the way and take it in at night because that is all that the authorities will permit.

We met the couple in a small plaza in the Realjo neighborhood which was once the Jewish quarter. From the left Ziva, our Spanish guide,  the museum owner, Kayla, our tour leader from Keshet and the husband of the museum owner. 

Thbis is the entrance to the museum and their private home on the floors above. 

From there we wended our way back to the bus which took us to Alhambra which is a fortress, a palace and a city set on a hills adjacent to Granada but removed enough to be defensible. It is here that Isabella signed the documents to charter Columbus’ voyage of exploration and the order of expulsion of the Jews. 

Fountain of 12 Lions

Key fountain leading to the lions

One gorgeous ceiling among many

View of Granada from the Palace

We returned to Granada exhausted  after four hours of touring on uneven stones and many changes of altitude.  And we were not done.

We had a group dinner in a cave where the featured entertainment was local flamenco. The pictures are all pink from the lighting so I will not post them. This was the most energetic and forceful flamenco I can ever remember seeing. 

We crawled in to bed  prepared for a long bus ride to Madrid the next day.