Look at Granada. A walk around the Albaicín Hardcover – June 10, 2023

Mirar Granada, un paseo por el Albaicín, is an artistic and historical journey through the emblematic quarter of this beautiful Andalusian city by the watercolourist Olimpia Manjón, a native of Granada herself but who here acts, in her own words, as an astonished tourist in the city of her birth.In these pages, in the drawings that the artist presents us, cultures and centuries mingle, as in the streets of the Albaicín. The Moorish layout, with numerous remains from its period of splendour superimposed on the Renaissance Spain of Isabella the Catholic, invites us to lose ourselves in its corners, discovering a new wonder at every turn of the corner, a wonder that Olimpia is ready to illustrate and document with the loose and vivid stroke of watercolour, a technique in which, by the way, water is the protagonist, as it is in the history of the neighbourhood.Conceived as a "walking guide" that helps those who already know the streets of the neighbourhood to remember them and also invites new visitors to explore them, each image in this book is accompanied by references, historical explanations and links to numerous websites, blogs and social networks that expand and multiply the information about the city of Granada, its history and its art. Read more