Barrio de la Villa

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Quarter of Andalusian origin, the medieval Muslim period, during the period of Al-Andalus, the root of the municipality that is located in the old town, adjacent to the Castle and bordering on the Balcony of Adarve, and was declared a Historic-Artistic in 1972. Noted for its streets, neighborhoods and architecture sharing the Albayzín of Granada or the Jewish quarter, which are sinuous, low-dimensional, narrow white and adorned with flowers. Residents jealously guard all year to decorate their walls but in the late spring, the festival of Corpus Christi, when the neighborhood he lives his days of splendor with an explosion of light and color mosaic of flowers in the leaf floor and white walls and pots full of ...