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The heath has arrived to the Alhambra city. The small streets of the Albaicín are full of small corners where people find shelter from the strong sun. The terraces are filled with granadinos and visitors just enjoying a good cold beer and a tasty fresh tapa.

Summer fills every corner of Granada with culture. You can get soaked in with tons of music, dance, movies, and many summer festivals that are held all over the city.

Also, there are plenty of public pools and water parks if you are in the mood of a good cold dip in the water to forget about the intense heath. And at night, a fresh terrace with good views, a good movie in one of the many summer theaters around the city or just enjoy a nice walk.

We specially recommend the open air cinema sessions and  Flamenco and music performances at the Museo del Sacromonte.

Also Sierra Nevada National Park is not only to enjoy during winter and ski season. During the summer there are a lot of options for the adventurers (hiking, mountain biking, horse riding). If you like extreme sports or only to enjoy beautiful sceneries, this is your place for the season. From Pradollano, the main town of the ski and mountain station, you can start a lot of hiking routes of every level of difficulty and even use the cableway to reach those highest points in the mountain. Another interesting spot to visit is Hoya de la Mora with beautiful nature and sceneries to enjoy. If you are lucky you can even spot some mountain goats along the way. Once the snow has melted, it is impressive how rich is the nature up there and all the amazing activities to enjoy.

You can enjoy a wide range of concerts in Granada, from classical to opera, flamenco and rock. As a popular university city, always associated with creativity, it has plenty of smaller venues catering to eclectic tastes.

The main venues in terms of capacity are Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Palacio de Deportes de Granada, and the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Granada, the largest covered auditórium in Andalucia. Two of the most outstanding historically are the Palacio Carlos V, and the Generalife summer gardens, both part of the Alhambra complex.

In terms of concert halls, Teatro Alhambra and Teatro Isabel la Catolica offer classical and flamenco performances.

Smaller venues are mostly found around the Realejo area, near Campo de Principe where many students go out - look out for Placeta de Strummer, a small square named after Joe Strummer, who lived in Granada in the 1970s and 1980s. Check out Planta Baja, Sala El Tren, Café Tertulia and Sala Booga Club. Also the Calle Pedro Antonio de Alarcon has plenty of diverse bars with live music.

For flamenco, try the Jardines de Zoraya, in the Albaicin district, while Eshavira in Calle Elvira has jazz and flamenco.

Granada holds the famous Music and Dance Festival every year from June to July, with concert venues including the open-air theatre in the Generalife, the summer gardens of the Alhambra, and the unusual circular courtyard of the 16th-century Palacio Carlos V.

When the Music and Dance Festivsl comes to an end, the programme Lorca and Granada in the Generalife Gardens starts. This venue was created in 2002 by the Junta of Andalucía, as the major cultural offer for Granada's summer evenings. Each year it pays tribute to Lorca's work through flamenco theatre and dance. Shows staged over the years have included Poeta en Nueva York, by Blanca Li, and Romancero Gitano and Yerma, by Cristina Hoyos. According to statistics, the shows have been seen by over 400,000 people so far and enjoy average ticket sales of 90%.

Completing the PRUEBA CCSE tests of constitutional and sociocultural knowledge of Spain is one of the essential requirements for applying for Spanish nationality. The absence of an adaptation of the nationality tests so that people who suffer from illiteracy have reasonable support in the procedure for acquiring Spanish nationality by residence entails a violation of the constitutional principles of equality and non-discrimination.

But, what happens if the person who wants to acquire Spanish nationality has difficulty carrying out these mandatory tests?

The reasons may be several, one may be due to lack of basic studies, which implies illiteracy of different types:

Total illiteracy, when the person cannot read or write in his mother tongue.
Functional illiteracy, when the person, despite not knowing how to read or write in Spanish, does understand it.

Therefore, the Instituto Cervantes can facilitate access to the PRUEBA CCSE under special conditions.

Since May 2022 our school is a recognized examination centre for illiterate candidates. The exam is carried out in an individual tutorial and only orally.

Check here all the special examination dates for 2022!

Saturday, 02.07.2022 / 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Tropical Coast
Guide: Juan / Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide and insurance

Saturday, 09.07.2022 / 07.45-20.00 h
Day trip to Córdoba
Guide: Juan / Price: 70 €*
* includes transport, guide, entrance fees and insurance

Saturday, 16.07.2022 / 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan / Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting and insurance

Saturday, 23.07.2022 / 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Tropical Coast
Guide: Juan / Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide and insurance

Saturday, 30.07.2022/ 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan / Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting and insurance
Meeting point: Congress Palace

RESERVATIONS AT THE OFFICE
Hammam Al-Andalus
C/ Santa Ana, nº 16 - 18009 Granada
For more than eight centuries of Muslim customs the Arab baths have been part of the culture in Granada. Price: 55 € (90 minutes; includes 15 minutes massage)

Enjoy a Flamenco show at any time during the week! We can inform you about availibility and prices at different places!

This week we have visitid the Bernarda Alba's house in Valderrubio village. The house where Francisca Alba Sierra lived with her family and where Frederico García Lorca drew inspiration for his famous tragedy Bernarda Alba's house, premiered in 1945 in Buenos Aires by the Margarita Xirgu company, is located on Calle Real (before Calle Ancha) in Valderrubio and the taboo of fiction and truth has weighed on it for many decades. The building was converted into a museum in December 2018.

Francisca Alba's house had a well shared with the house of Federico's aunt, Matilde García Rodríguez. From the well they could see and hear those on the other side. It was through this aunt that Federico and his family found out about what was happening at the Alba house. But not everything that appears in Federico's drama has the same source. The rigorous mourning comes from a relative named Paca Mazuecos, whose house, after the death of her daughter, was completely in mourning, dressed in rigorous black, with a headscarf, no flowers in the patio because they were colored, black curtains on the windows, on the skirt of the stretcher table ...

Apart from visiting the Lorca museum in Fuentevaqueros, a visit to the Valderrubio museum is worthwhile,

The celebration of the centenary of the first Cante Jondo Flamenco contest will have a key presence in the 71st edition of the Granada Festival. Under the heading #granada1922, the historic contest held in Granada will be this year's Festival's main theme. Legendary flamenco artists such as Rancapino, Juan Villar, Vicente Soto, José de la Tomasa or Pepe Habichuela will visit the Festival together with very well known flamenco singers such as Marina Heredia, Mayte Martín, Jesús Méndez, Rafael de Utrera, Pedro El Granaíno or the youngest Kiki Morente. The Malandain Ballet Biarritz will recall with its choreographies the premieres of the ballets of The Firebird and The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky.

We will enjoy some current Spanish and flamenco dance performances that the Ballet Nacional de España will put on the stage of the Teatro del Generalife, or the flamenco companies of María Pagés (De Sheherazade) and Patricia Guerrero (Deliranza).

This year's resident artist will be the German violist Tabea Zimmermann without a doubt the best current performer of this instrument.

Between June 13 and July 10, over 28 days, the Granada Festival will offer a total of 96 music and dance shows (50 in the general program and 46 in the Fex).

in the dance section the festival will be present for the first time one of the most solid European companies, the Slovenian National ballet Ljubljana, with a production of Le Corsaire, choreography by José Carlos Martínez.

Bach modern, another of this year's thematic cycles, will include four artists of great international prominence who will establish a dialogue between the timeless musical universe of J.S. Bach and the contemporary scores of three seminal composers of the 20th century: György Kurtág, Olivier Messiaen and Dmitri Shostakovich.

#Brahms125 will pay a small tribute to the brilliant Hamburg composer Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), whose 125th anniversary of his death in Viena is commemorated this year.

Among the great performers who will come to Granada this year, we highlight the first of two enormous Russian talents, despite their youth: the pianist Daniil Trifonov, who has just turned 30; and the incredibly young Alexandra Dovgan, who at just 14, has captivated the most demanding audiences in Europe.

For further information visit: https://granadafestival.org/

The SEMANA DIGITAL DEL ESPAÑOL is a new event developed by FEDELE SPAIN.

It is a hybrid physical-digital event that will take place on 17th and 18th October in digital format and from 19th to 22nd October 2022 in Madrid with the aim of bringing together language and tourism agencies, federated centres, students, teachers and management teams.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT FORMS OF PARTICIPATION
This event will have two main themes: training sessions and commercial activities to close deals between participating schools, agencies and institutions. It is an event with different agendas and forms of participation, depending on the profile of the participant, and open to all professionals worldwide. Management teams will be able to participate in all activities, including the private session on Wednesday 19th October. Federated centres will have preference in activities and agendas.

• Digital-only assistants
  Under this modality, users will be able to follow all the digital activities planned from 1st July to 22nd October, including all training activities.
  
  
• Non-federated centres
  The event is open to the participation of non-federated centres. They will be able to take part in dozens of activities.
  
  
• Spanish teachersTeachers can access to training pills and sessions and develop their abilities and knowledges.
  
  
• Agencies and schools
  During business meetings international professionals can expand their commercialisation channels.
  
  
• Students
• For the first time, we will have an event for students of Spanish as a foreign language in our country with a big party in Madrid.
  
  

Click here to see the whole programme:
https://fedele.org/en/semana-del-espanol-2022/

Wednesday, 08.06.2022
20.30 h
Tapa Tour with our teacher Marisa
* students pay their own consumptions.
Meeting point: School

Saturday, 11.06.2022
08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Tropical Coast
Guide: Juan / Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide and insurance

Saturday, 18.06.2022
08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan / Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting and insurance

Saturday, 25.06.2022
07.45-20.00 h
Day trip to Córdoba
Guide: Juan / Price: 70 €*
* includes transport, guide, entrance fees and insurance

Meeting point: Congress Palace

RESERVATIONS AT THE OFFICE:
Hammam Al-Andalus
C/ Santa Ana, nº 16 - 18009 Granada
For more than eight centuries of Muslim customs the Arab baths have been part of the culture in Granada. Price: 55 € (90 minutes; includes 15 minutes massage)

Enjoy a Flamenco show at any time during the week! We can inform you about availibility and prices at different places!

Saturday, 07.05.2022
08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Guide: Juan
Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting and insurance

Saturday, 14.05.2022
08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Tropical Coast
Guide: Juan
Price: 55 €*
* includes transport, guide and insurance

Saturday, 28.05.2022
07.45-20.00 h
Day trip to Cordoba
Guide: Juan
Price: 70 €*
* includes transport, guide, entrance fees and insurance

Meeting point: Congress Palace

RESERVATIONS AT THE OFFICE:

Hammam Al-Andalus
C/ Santa Ana, nº 16 - 18009 Granada
For more than eight centuries of Muslim customs the Arab baths have been part of the culture in Granada.
Price: 55 €*
* 90 minutes; includes 15 minutes massage

Enjoy a Flamenco show at any time during the week! We can inform you about availibility and prices at different places!

• Activities are organized for all Spanish levels
• Dates and activities may be subject to change
• Students enroll and pay for all activities at the school
• The school may cancel activities in case there is not a minimum of participants.

During the course week from 25 to 29 de april 2022 a group of young portuguese students from the Escola Secundária Luis de Freitas Branco in Paço de Arcos, participated in a Spanish language programme at our school.

They combined 4 Spanish lessons of 45 minutes per day at our school with cultural activities organized by their tutors.

Daily programme from Monday to Friday:
08.00 h
Breakfast
09.00-12.15 h
Spanish course
12.30-19.00 h
Cultural activites
20.00 h
Dinner

Our school hosted the students with local host families who live in our neighbourhood and in walking distance to the school.

Saturday, 02.04.2022 / 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Meeting point: Congress Palace
Guide: Juan
Price: 50 €*
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting, insurances

Saturday, 09.04.2022 / 08.45-20.00 h
Day trip to the Alpujarra Mountains
Meeting point: Congress Palace
Guide: Juan
Price: 50 €*
* includes transport, guide, ham tasting, insurances

Saturday, 30.04.2022 / 07.45-20.00 h
Day trip to Córdoba
Meeting point: Congress Palace
Guide: Juan
Price: 65 €*
* includes transport, guide, entrance fees, insurances

Enjoy a Flamenco show or a session at the Arab bath Hammam Ál-Andalus at any time during the week! We can do the reservation for you at the office!

· Activities are organized for all Spanish levels
· Dates and activities may be subject to change.
· Students enroll and pay for all activities at the school.
· The school may cancel activities in case there is not a minimum of participants.