School Blog

This week we have started with our first complementary activities. Our teacher Paco has guided his group to the Cahorros Gorge in Monachil.

During the hiking activities our students have the opportunity to practice their Spanish with the teacher and to enjoy the phantastic landscapes around Granada.

The gorge of the Río Monachil is one of the most beautiful, popular and easiest hiking routes in the whole province of Granada. The gorge itself is known as Los Cahorros. It is very popular with climbers and day-trippers alike, due to its proximity to the city of Granada.

Los Cahorros is a mid-mountain limestone area, made up of formations that are younger than the higher peaks and are subject to more erosion. Due to the scarcity of soil, human intervention and the altitude here, a number of shrubs, such as willows, poplars, rushes and esparto fields, thrive alongside the riverbed in the V-shaped valley of the Río Monachil. This unique vegetation in turn gives rise to the rich wildlife, such as birds, amphibians and mammals, such as the wild boar and Spanish ibex.

In Spain, Granada preserves treasures from the past. But trendy hotspots and a new ecopark have this city looking to the future.

Returning to the Alhambra is like rereading a book. The hilltop citadel built by the Nasrid sultans above Granada, in Spain's autonomous Andalusia region, was a masterpiece of medieval engineering, but also of literature—poetry and philosophy expressed in dream-like architecture. Verses, blessings, and ruminations were etched into its facades so the structure would seem to speak.

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Our school does not offer Spanish courses from Monday, 12.20.2021 until Friday, 01.07.2022.

During these three weeks, the office remains open from Monday to Friday from 09.00 to 14.00 h.

Many thanks to you all for making me feel so welcome In Granada. I've had a wonderful time, and will return.

I promise to practice my Spanish and salsa otherwise the two Maria's will be telling me off !!! Please can you thank them both for helping me with my Spanish and salsa

Tell Maria my language teacher that I will bring her some chorizo out next time for her paella !!!
I have also enjoyed sharing the flat with Julia lovely girl and Einer. He's a good guy and he has introduced me to some of his Spanish friends.

Take care and best wishes to all of you I will be returning in the near future !!!
Neal an Englishman lost in Granada :)
Part 2 to follow ...

(Neal Turner / 55 years / UK)

Monday, 15.11.2021
17.00 - 19.30 h
Guided visit to the old arabic quarter Albaicín
Meeting point: Puerta Elvira
Guide: Paco
Meeting time: 16.45 h
Price: 10 €

Tuesday, 16.11.2021
18.00 - 19.30 h
Arabic bath Hammam Al-Andalus
Meeting point: C/ Santa Ana, nº 16
Guide: NO
Meeting time: 17.45 h
Price: 52 €
(includes 15 minutes massage)

Friday, 19.11.2021
20.00 - 21.00 h
Flamenco at the Jardines de Zoraya*
Meeting point: C/ Panaderos, nº 32
Guide: NO
Meeting time: 19.45 h
Price: 25 €*
* optional dinner at the restaurant

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

I love this school and have been so many times. The teachers are wonderful - kind, clear and will help you learn the Spanish culture and language very efficiently.

Elizabeth Toplis (UK /40 years)

Granada is the privileged environment where concerts of one of the longest-running, awarded and respected jazz festivals in Europe take place: the Granada International Jazz Festival. Since that first edition in 1980, the Granada International Jazz Festival has been welcoming the excellence of jazz history for forty years, uninterrupted: Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Haden, Art Blakey, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bebo y Chucho Valdés, Ron Carter, Eliane Elias, Robert Glasper, among an endless list of musicians.

Fans, who travel from many parts of Spain and Europe come to this event, to enjoy extraordinary concerts in the beautiful and emblematic Theater Isabel la Católica and throughout the city with Jazz in parallel with more than 80 concerts and activities, generating an exciting jazz atmosphere. The Granada International Jazz Festival, in autumn, is a must.

"Although I have only performed at the Granada Jazz Festival once, the memory of the experience has haunted me for over a decade. Between the creative, welcoming direction of the festival, and the intense flavors of mystery and history that permeate this city, I have always longed to return ". Charles Lloyd

The Federation of Spanish schools in Spain (FEDELE) organizes, for the second consecutive year, the SEMANA DIGITAL DEL ESPAÑOL. In this edition they present notable changes such as the registration prior to the activity, which will help to certify the attendance of the participants, as well as a renewed more informative agenda, with interventions by different professionals in the sector and sessions for all  profiles involved in the sector of Spanish as a foreign language.

Participation is totally free and there is no limit on places, but registration is mandatory to later receive the certificate issued by the Federation. In addition, this year together with the participation participants will receive different documents so that they can follow the sessions, write down important questions and participate with all the speakers.

Wednesday, 03.11.2021
Arab architecture in the center of Granada
Meeting point: School
Guide: Marisa
Meeting time: 16.00 h
Price: Students pay the entrance fees (approx. 5 to 10 €)
* minimum number 3 students

Friday, 05.11.2021
Flamenco at the Jardines de Zoraya*
Meeting point: C/ Panaderos, nº 32
Guide: NO
Price: 25 €*
* optional dinner at the restaurant

Hammam Al-Andalus
C/ Santa Ana, nº 16 - 18009 Granada
Arab baths are part of the culture in Granada. For more than eight centuries of Muslim customs the Arab baths have been part of the city of Granada. If you want to enjoy this experience, reserve a session at our office:
Price: 52 € (90 minutes; includes 15 minutes massage).

• 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

Wednesday, 27.10.2021
Language exchange meeting
Meeting point: Terraza Alarique
C/ Cuesta Gomérez, nº 14
Guide: NO
Meeting time: 20.00 h
Price: free

Thursday, 28.10.2021
Arab architecture in the center of Granada
Meeting point: Main entrance of the town hall
Guide: Marisa
Meeting time: 17.00 h
Price: Students pay the entrance fees (approx. 5 to 10 €)
* minimum number 3 students

Friday, 29.10.2021
Flamenco at the Jardines de Zoraya*
Meeting point: C/ Panaderos, nº 32
Guide: NO
Price: 25 €*
* optional dinner at the restaurant

Hammam Al-Andalus
C/ Santa Ana, nº 16 - 18009 Granada
Arab baths are part of the culture in Granada. For more than eight centuries of Muslim customs the Arab baths have been part of the city of Granada. If you want to enjoy this experience, reserve a session at our office:
Price: 52 € (90 minutes; includes 15 minutes massage).

• 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