Sacromonte
Sign in to savethumb|right|View of the Sacromonte from the Alhambra thumb|right|Location of the neighborhood of Sacromonte in Granada thumb|282px|View of Sacromonte 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.
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Origin of the caves
- A neighbourhood legend: Ravine of the Blacks (''Barranco de los Negros'')
- Other sights
- Famous Sacromontines
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|right|View of the Sacromonte from the Alhambra thumb|right|Location of the neighborhood of Sacromonte in Granada thumb|282px|View of Sacromonte 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.
It is located on the hillside and in the valley of Valparaíso, opposite the Alhambra – emblem of Granada. The neighbourhood occupies both banks of the Darro river, whose name seems to be derived from the phrase "''d'auro" ("of gold") because of its famous gold-bearing sediments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sacromonte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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