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September brings summer to a close in Granada and the city pays tribute to its patroness, the Virgen de las Angustias. There are two important dates: 15 September and the last Sunday of the month.

This is probably one of the most picturesque and enchanting times to visit Granada. The stalls laden with fruit set up in the city centre, the red and gold leaves of the trees lining the Carrera de la Virgen boulevard, and the warm September afternoons create a delightful ambience that charms the citizens of Granada as much as the visitors.

You'll also discover a gastronomic delight, the unforgettably sweet cakes known as tortas de la Virgen.

The Federation of Associations of Spanish schools in Spain, FEDELE, has created a complete recognition system with guidelines, recommendations and protocols to follow to achieve a safe school and free from infections facing the present epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19.

You can come to our Spanish school in Granada with the certainty that we have specific contingency plans and protocols to reduce the risk of infection within the center as much as possible.

This seal certifies that we have a contingency plan to reduce the possibilities of contagion in our school and to stop the expansion to prevent possible outbreaks due to COVID-19.

However, we cannot assure the absence of risk due to the changing epidemiological situation in which we find ourselves and the personal responsibility of each user

This Ethnographic Museum helps you to understand the history, culture and nature of such a unique neighborhood in Granada.

The Sacromonte Caves Museum is located in the Barranco de los Negros, in the Sacromonte district, and it offers stunning views of the Alhambra and the Darro Valley (Valparaiso). It is very close to the historic Albaicín district.

In this museum ten caves have been recreated as they were 100 years ago, so visitors can learn about the living conditions and trades of its inhabitants. A part of the museum is dedicated to nature, offering information about flora, fauna, climate, landscape and agriculture of the area.

There are many cultural activities and events taking place here during the year: guided tours , walking tours in the area, flamenco live shows and the open air summer cinema.

Learn Spanish in Granada, an incredible city in Southern Spain. Soak up 300 days of sunshine a year and enjoy tapa bars on every corner.

If you're looking for a Spanish language school in Spain, this is probably what you have in mind. You can study Spanish at any level from total beginner to advanced. So whether you're basically fluent and want to get certified, or you're new to Spanish and just want to be able to get through the menu of a tapas bar, we've got you covered!

What about the timetable? We are open all year round. You can even pick how many hours of classes you take. So whether you want to squeeze in as much classroom time as possible or want more time to explore, there's a course here for you in beautiful Andalusia. We are already prepared for 2022! All you need to do is choose between a wide range of courses. We also have introduced some changes for next year.

• Intensive 20 + University access PCE/UNEDasiss
  Our new preparation programme Spanish course and access to the university allows you to learn Spanish in Granada, to prepare the Specific Competences Tests (P.C.E.), to sit the exams and to enter any university in Spain.
• Intensive 20 + ECTS credits
  You can now gain European academic credits (ECTS) at all levels during a 2 weeks course.

Download our Spanish course programme 2022!

Let's be honest, it's not just about our Spanish school. In Andalusia and especially in Granada there's rich culture everywhere you look. Try everything from hiking over churros tasting to flamenco dancing on our cultural activities. And a visit to the world-famous Alhambra is a must!

Our preparation programme Spanish course and access to the university allows you to learn Spanish in Granada and to prepare the Specific Competences Tests (P.C.E.), to sit the exams and to enter any university in Spain.

Our school is a accredited by the Spanish Instituto Cervantes. This accreditation is a requirement to apply for a study visa for Spain in the case of language studies.

We are also a collaborating center of the UNED. UNEDasiss manages the admission process to university degrees for non-EU students with a foreign baccalaureate. The UNEDassis evaluates the academic records of international students and performs the necessary tests to access undergraduate studies at Spanish universities. To get a place at a university in Spain, the student will have to plan in advance what to do. Students can obtain information about the whole procedure on the UNEDassis website itself.

For many studies you need to take Specific Competency Tests (P.C.E.). Our Intensive 20 + PCE/UNEDasiss university access programme is aimed at those non-EU students who come with a very low level of Spanish and who need to prepare 4 to 6 P.C.E.

You will prepare your language level at our school during 6 months. Then you continue the P.C.E. preparation at a partner school in Granada. This institute is also a collaborating center of the UNED and is specialized on the preparation of the P.C.E. tests.

For further information visit our course section

The Huerta de San Vicente in Granada takes an important place during the studying of Federico Garcia Lorca as a poet. It was his family home.

His parents bought this house on the outskirts of Granada, where the orchards of the Vega were located. This place, situated on the border between city and countryside, served as his summer residence from the time of the Arabs, where Federico returned to find his roots.

Here he wrote many of his best works (Romacero Gitano, La Casa de Bernarda Alba) in the summers of 1926 to 1936.

Today the building is the García Lorca House-Museum, which presents the poet's original objects, drawings, manuscripts, furniture and paintings. The Federico García Lorca Museum maintains its structure and furnishings from the time the poet lived there. The building dates from the early twentieth century, with a simple design and decoration, typical of this type of houses in the Vega of Granada. These buildings are perfect for maintaining cooler internal temperatures, and at night they are pleasantly warm.

This week our school has offered a nice event for teachers and staff.

Hammam Al-Andalus, the Arabic baths in Granada, invited all their partners to visit the exhibition #INGOYA at the Granada Congress Palace. The event finished with wine and tapas :). From here a big thank to our colleagues from the Hammam.

The exhibtion includes more than 1,000 images on 35 screens, each of them five metres high, synchronised to music by Spanish classical masters such as Albeniz, Falla, Granados or Boccherini.

This is the main event of the cultural calendar in Granada this year, and once it leaves Granada, it will travel to Madrid and other cities in Spain before going beyond national borders.

Check the exhibition website for further information: www.ingoya.com

Our school has organized the first teacher training programme for non-native teachers of Spanish in 2021. The course has taken place during one week from 24.05.2021 to 28.05.2021 with 3 participants from Portugal and the Czech Republic.

The teachers enjoyed very much the programme and sent us the following video. Have a look at it on the Escuela Montalbán Youtube Channel:
https://youtu.be/pCCibRgfe48

Many thanks to Margarida Ribeiro, Lidia Francisco and Eva Frgalová!

The Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions in collaboration with the Alhambra organizes, from July 20 to August 21, 2021, the twentieth edition of the Lorca and Granada programme in the Generalife Gardens.

We already have enjoyed twenty editions since its inception, in 2002, with the staging of Blood Wedding directed by Antonio Gades. It has been two decades in which the Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Junta de Andalucía has punctually fulfilled, every summer, with its commitment to offer Grenadians and visitors a first-rate artistic and technical appointment around the figure and work of Federico García Lorca.

In 2021, the Andalusian Flamenco Ballet returns to the Teatro del Generalife with THE HEX OF THE BUTTERFLY, a performance about women and dances in the times of Federico García Lorca. The show, directed by Úrsula Lopez, will have the special collaboration of Manuel Lombo at its premiere and every Thursday and Friday.

Enjoy this new edition of Lorca and Granada in the Generalife Gardens!

Contact for tickets: https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/lorcaygranada/