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Modern Granada: Articles from the Napoleonic Years to Today (Page 3)

French mines under the Alhambra, the 1884 quake, and the garrison revolt of July 1936.

Pionono pastry Granada: cylindrical rolled sponge on a white paper wafer with caramelized golden cream dome on top, sitting on a wooden counter inside Casa Ysla bakery in Santa Fe

Pionono pastry: Granada's papal sweet and its 1897 origin

Sarah Mills Updated

A single pastry chef in Santa Fe, 1897, rolled sponge around egg-yolk cream and named it after a pope. Why Granada's iconic sweet has outlasted everything else.

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Exterior of the Huerta de San Vicente house-museum in Granada where Federico García Lorca wrote his major plays, white-painted Andalusian farmhouse surrounded by gardens in the Parque Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca and Granada: the city that made him

James Walker Updated

Lorca wrote his major plays in Granada, was shot nearby in 1936, and his grave has never been found. His house-museum, the grave site, and how to visit.

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Washington Irving Alhambra scene at dusk: a moonlit view of the Patio de los Leones with marble lion fountain, 124 columns casting long shadows, evoking the Romantic atmosphere of 1829 when Irving wrote Tales of the Alhambra

Washington Irving and the Tales of the Alhambra

James Walker Updated

Washington Irving lived in the Alhambra in 1829 and published Tales of the Alhambra in 1832, sparking the tourism boom that made it Spain's top monument.

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