Unfortunately the guides that Rick recommends in his book for the Alhambra are not available on the day I will be there. Does anyone know of any other relatively inexpensive guides that will go through the Alhambra with you?
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Ottawa, Canada
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Michael....Rick's "tour" of the Alhambra in his book, plus the excellent audio guide available there to rent is really all you should need. The audio guide is very detailed.
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Marathon, Ontario, Canada
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We toured the Alhambra and Generalife in a group tour (about 50 people in the party) and found it very difficult to get close enough to the guide to hear everything that he was saying. In addition, there were places where we would have liked to linger awhile (to take photos or just to better absorb the surroundings) that we couldn't because the group was moving along without us.
I haven't read Rick's guidebook or listened to the audio guide but something like that would certainly be my choice (rather than hiring a guide) as long as you have a good map to the grounds.
I purchased a guidebook ("The Alhambra and Generalife in Focus" published by Edilux) for 8€ at a small shop near Santa Maria de la Alhambra and just down the plaza from the Puerta de la Justicia. If we were to tour the Alhambra again (and we might do so in March), the guidebook would be all I would take.