EL ALBAYZIN

The Albaicín or Albayzín is a neighborhood of the east of the Spanish city of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located at an altitude of 700 to 800 m above sea level. In 1994, the Albaicín was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco as an extension of the monumental complex of the Alhambra and Generalife.2
It began to settle in Iberian times, and there was dispersed Roman settlement. There is no data of Islamic settlement prior to the arrival of the Berber Zirids, so it is assumed that the city was abandoned from the end of the Roman Empire until the founding of the Zirí kingdom (1013) that was when it was surrounded by walls (Alcazaba Cadima ).
The Arab population is manifested in two nuclei: the Albaicín and the Alhambra. This neighborhood had its greatest influence in the time of the Nasrid. The Albaicín maintains the urban fabric of the Nasrid period, with narrow streets, in an intricate network that extends from the highest part (San Nicolas) to the course of the Darro River and Elvira Street, which are in Plaza Nueva.

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