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The Alhambra's stucco palaces watch over caves where flamenco still echoes: Granada was Islam's last Iberian kingdom, surrendered in 1492. That ending haunts everything set here. Cannibal stalks its streets; La mano de Fátima remembers Morisco Spain. Open Granada on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Granada

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Browse 5 books and 5 movies set in Granada.

La mano de Fátima

La mano de Fátima

by Ildefonso Falcones
book

La apasionante historia de un joven atrapado entre dos religiones y dos amores, en busca de su libertad y la de su puebloEspaña, segunda mitad del siglo XVI: hace más de medio siglo que ha desaparecido el último reino…

Setting: Granada, Spain; Cordoba, SpainTime Period: 16th century
Cannibal

Cannibal

CTB Film Company-TVE-Mod Producciones-Canal Sur-Canal+ España-Libra Film-La Loma Blanca-Luminor
movie

Carlos is a respectable man the most prestigious tailor in Granada Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything.

Setting: Granada, SpainTime Period: 2013
Water-Mirror of Granada

Water-Mirror of Granada

movie

Experimental cinematic symphony of Granada José Val del Omar's birthplace.

Setting: Granada, SpainTime Period: 1955
Leo Africanus

Leo Africanus

by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), Peter Sluglett (Translator)
book

"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor…

Setting: ['Granada (Spain)', 'Fes (Morocco)', 'Timbuktu (Mali)', 'Cairo (Egypt)', 'Mecca (Saudi Arabia)', 'Istanbul (Turkey)', 'Rome: Papal States (Italy)', 'Tunis (Tunisia)']Time Period: 1488; Granada
The Selected Poems

The Selected Poems

by Federico García Lorca
book

The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry,…

Setting: Spain; Andalusia, Spain; Granada, SpainTime Period: 1936
South from Granada

South from Granada

Fernando Colomo PC-Canal+ España-Atresmedia
movie

Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique Don Fernando is leaving for Granada with his wife.…

Setting: Granada, SpainTime Period: 1920s
Death in Granada

Death in Granada

Canal+-Kanzaman Productions-Enrique Cerezo-Esparza / Katz Productions-Atresmedia-Miramar Films
movie

A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator Garcia Lorca who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.

Setting: Granada, SpainTime Period: 1930s
By Fire, By Water

By Fire, By Water

by Mitchell James Kaplan
book

Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality…

Setting: Spain; Granada, SpainTime Period: 1492
The Return

The Return

by Victoria Hislop
book

Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet café, a chance…

Setting: Granada, SpainTime Period: 2008
Todo es posible en Granada

Todo es posible en Granada

movie

Manolo Ortega is a tour guide in Granada and at night acting in a cave in Sacromonte. It has a small plot totally barren and yet does not want to sell it to an American company for uranium prospecting. To convince Spain…

Setting: Granada, SpainTime Period: 1982

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