Happy 2014!! For all our clients, cooperators, workers and friends, from Cicerone Granada, we wish you the best in this new year which is about to begin.
Documental Isabel, the Catholic Monarchs in Granada
Several months ago, the team for the TV series Isabel was in Granada (Things to do in Granada) and the Alhambra (Alhambra Tours) filming scenes for the episodes. At the same time they filmed takes for scenes connected to the story of the Catholic Monarchs. Cicerone collaborated where requested, we led them on a route […]
The Nasrid Capitals are recovered in El Carmen Blanco
The Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta has recovered the “essence” of its headquarters, the Carmen Blanco, showing it as originally conceived by its founder, José María Rodríguez-Acosta between 1916 and 1930, after the vestibule on the ground floor was refurbished, after having been covered up by wooden panels for more than 30 years. The panels, which hid the […]
The restoration of the Mirador de Lindaraja viewpoint, by the Two Sisters Hall in the Alhambra’sLions Coutyard, has revealed an engraving which reads “Alonso Cano Año 1630”. It is a piece of graffiti art that Alonso Cano himself could have left inscribed on the walls of the Nasrid compound. This inscription can be found written […]
Cicerone Cultura y Ocio, 10th anniversary and 230 thanks!
CICERONE CULTURA Y OCIO SL, 10 anniversaries and 230 thanks! CICERONE “Guided Tours” Guides: Antonio Bonilla, Israel Rodríguez, María Muiños, Cristina Muñoz, Berthus de Boer, Fernando Espigares, Arturo Gutiérrez, Victoria Gutiérrez, Rafael Esteban, Esther Sánchez, Gerardo Ruiz, Maarten Vermeulen, Rosa Ocaña, Maarten Swinkels, Daniel Aguilera. Profession Partners: Remedios Martín, Susana Morente, Pablo Romero, Ernestina Brobeil, Bernardo Aparicio, […]
Cicerone receives the Certificate of Excellence 2013 from Trip Advisor
TripAdvisor, the biggest travel website in the world, has awarded us its Certificate of Excellence, for the second year in a row. This prize is given to the establishments with the best performance and highest user ratings: Cicerone, Cultura y Ocio, has once again, received the (2013) prize for the quality of its guided tours, […]
In the context of the conference series “El milenio del Reino de Granada a debate” (The millenium of the Kingdom of Granada debated), academic Mª Jesús Viguera Molins from the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Complutense presented a collection of coins from Al Andalus made in Granada mints from the 11th […]
What happened with the first Christian University in Granada?
The Curia Metropolitana in old town of Granada building, the headquarter for the first Christian university of Granada, is one of the stops on our tour of the historic centre and the Albayzin, the Granada Must-Do Tour, where we discover the transformation of the city of Granada, from Islam to Christianity. This unique building dates […]
Behind the walls of Granada’s mysterious Alhambra a number of intriguing episodes occurred, and are being gradually unveiled thanks to new research. Some of these studies conclude that many of the women belonging to the Nasrid dynasty (from the 13th until the 15th century), remain neglected and forgotten, due to the masculine nature of medieval […]
On April 1st of last year, the RTVE programme La Aventura del Saber broadcast on La 2, took to the streets of Granada accompanied by CICERONE Cultura y Ocio. The theme of the program was the Andalusí Legacy. Aventura del Saber: Andalusí Legacy. The report on this legacy takes a tour around the most characteristic […]
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