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Minha Lua present their new and most complex musical project in Granada, because of the vocal and harmonic difficulty involved, nothing more and nothing less than paying homage to the legendary band MADREDEUS.

Madredeus is the most important group in the history of Portuguese music. Their international successes and world tours have placed them at the top of World Music thanks to the impressive vocal and lyrical ability of their singer, Teresa Salgueiro. 

FADO-rooted melodies coupled with harmonies and "new age" sounds of unfathomable richness and magic, created a deep and delicate style over several decades.

In Granada Easter festivities begin on Palm Sunday, 24.03.2024 and las until Easter Sunday, 31.03.2024

The Holy Week (Semana Santa) processions in Granada are very unique when compared with other Andalusian cities. It is renowned for the simplicity and beauty of its "pasos" (floats of thrones with religious icons), and also for the unique surroundings of the processions.

Indeed, the streets of the Albaicín, for example, so narrow and twisted with their typical cobblestones, give a special setting to the procession of the Virgen de la Aurora and the Concepción.

Unforgettable images await the visitor, like those of the procession of El Silencio returning to the home church after midnight by the Carrera del Darro.

And not forgetting the beautiful backdrop, with the Alhambra often to be admired atop its moonlit hill.

And visitors should not miss the Santísimo Cristo del Consuelo y María Santísima del Sacromonte, known as Los Gitanos (the gypsies). It takes place on Wednesday is one of the most beautiful and breathtaking processions of the Semana Santa in Granada.

Undoubtley, one of the best places to see it: on its way back to the Sacromonte Abbey on top of the Sacromonte, where the gypsies receive the icons with bonfires and saetas (prayers sung in flamenco style without instruments). However, this takes place almost at dawn and it's a long way from the city center.

The city of Granada hosts a new edition of the Tango Festival, a type of dance with great development worldwide.

Tango fans and professionals have multiplied in recent years in an extraordinary way, which confirms that tango is, fundamentally, a manifestation of contemporary urban culture. This event seeks to flood the entire city with rhythm and passion, through more than fifty artists and around fifteen shows, as well as through parallel activities that include everything from dance classes and night parties, to street performances. and meetings between artists and fans.

More than 20 peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountain range are over 3.000 metres high, being the Mulhacén with 3.482m. the highest peak of the Iberian Peninsula.

These mountains are home to the most southerly ski resort with the most hours of sunshine in Europe. Nestled in the Penibetic System in the south of Spain in Andalusia, Sierra Nevada offers excellent conditions for the practice of the white sport.

The ski resort is located in the Granada municipality of Monachil, 31 kilometres from the city of Granada. It is the western part of the Sierra Nevada National Park, which is also a Natural Park and Biosphere Reserve.

In autumn Granada starts the countdown to the start of the ski season. This year the Sierra Nevada ski resort has started the winter season on Tuesday, 5nd December 2023.

Every year, the image of the Granada Jazz Festival is spread in an extraordinary way by Juan Vida, a painter who has been affectionately involved with the Festival throughout all these years and whose posters are coveted by the most passionate collectors. With an extraordinary artistic and human sensitivity, this year's poster expresses in a metaphorical way: the origin of jazz, Africa and the necessary visibility of the female instrumentalist.

Carlos Saura said that he discovered the flamenco in Granada. It was in the city of the Generalife, in the fifties, when Saura arrived as a photographer for the Festival of Music and Dance.

An experience that would mark his artistic career, because it was in Granada where his passion for the performing arts, especially dance, began.

Granada remembers the master in this way in a work that pays tribute to his way of understanding art through flamenco.

PICASSO AND DANCE

A man like Picasso, whose curiosity went beyond painting, bringing to each of the disciplines he experimented with a new vision and unforeseen solutions, could not be alien to the theatre.

He was associated with Diaghilev's Russian ballets and was married to the dancer Olga Khokhlova, the muse of several of his works.

This experience led him to design different scenographies in which Picasso did not limit himself to following what was stipulated, but within this already defined framework he imposed very different interpretations. As in the rest of his works, and in accordance with Cubist principles, he sought to rediscover the profound reality of forms and objects, achieving, in this case, a new way of understanding the scene, with other dimensions, different density and a play of planes, either with an architectural geometry that suggests the aesthetics of cities or by very strictly delimiting this space, emphasising theatrical artific

This year's theatrical proposal for the cycle LORCA AND GRANADA is a show that condenses the way of understanding dance of three geniuses: Lorca, Picasso, Saura.

Under the artistic direction of Carlos Saura Medrano, the choreographic direction of Andrés Marín and the musical direction of Daniel Doura, the show offers a journey through the experiences and life trajectories of its protagonists. Picasso and dance, an encounter with Lorca in Granada' is the confluence of flamenco, contemporary dance, plastic arts and visual arts in a unique proposal that will delight the public on summer nights, between the 2nd and 26th of August, in the Teatro del Generalife.

At the top of the Sacromonte district, in the Museo de las Cuevas del Sacromonte, you can enjoy the cinema with the feeling of being fresquito and closer to the stars, also of the celluloid.

The screenings are at 22:00 hours. The ticket price is 5 €. Remember that seating is limited.

For a whole week there are all kind of celebrations and cultural events in the streets and at the fairground: puppet shows, bullfighting, flamenco, music performances, traditional processions, and exhibitions.

Two major processions usually take place in Granada during Corpus Christi.

The first is the Tarasca, of pagan origin, which takes place on Wednesday morning and marks the beginning of a long school break. In this procession, a figure of a woman on a dragon is accompanied by gigantes y cabezudos. These caracthers are key participants of the celebrations, since they represent important people in the history of Granada.

The other procession, takes place on Thursday, the Corpus Christi day, and is a solemn and religious event.

A week before the fair, the carocas (a traditional satirical competition) are displayed in Plaza Bib-Rambla. These carocas are cartoons with satirical verses which humorously highlight major local and national events that took place during the year. The authors are usually local artists, most of them amateurs who compete among hundreds of participants to be selected. Every year only 20 carocas are published. This year from 260 carocas presented 20 were selected and will be displayed in Plaza Bib Rambla on May 11th.

There is little left for the start of the Granada Music and Dance Festival!

In its 72nd edition, you can attend 105 shows from June 21 to July 19. Among them, the Bob Dylan concert stands out, who will be the artist in charge of inaugurating the festival this year.

The Granada Festival is one of the most important cultural events in Spain. Since 1952 the festival has brought together some of the best artists in the world in the historic Andalusian city. This year the festival offers an incredibly diverse and exciting programme. The program will include classical music concerts, opera performances, jazz, flamenco and contemporary dance performances.

Granada is a historical place full of culture and heritage and is known for its monuments, such as the Alhambra, and its lively nightlife and gastronomy. The Granada Music and Dance Festival seeks to take advantage of everything the city has to offer for an unforgettable cultural event. In addition to the presence of Bob Dylan, renowned directors such as Riccardo Chailly and Giovanni Antonini will be present. There will be classical voices such as Anna Lucia Richter, Anna Pirozi and Carlos Álvarez and performances by flamenco artists such as Alba Molina, Argentina and María Toledo.

On the 3rd of May and as every year, Granada has got dressed up in frills and flowers to celebrate May crosses. In courtyards and squares, the air is alive with tradition. But where does the May Crosses tradition come from?

All cultures have celebrated the arrival of spring with rituals of devotion to the gods of nature. Coinciding with these dates, in the Christian tradition in May the crosses festival is celebrated. In Spain it appeared on all of the calendars, being associated with the legend of discovery by Saint Helena of the true Cross of Christ.

In Granada, the tradition became deeply rooted, and lived on with great intensity from the moment the city was conquered by the Reyes Catolicos onwards. Following the intimate tradition of Arabic carmen houses, the crosses of May were originally celebrated in the courtyards of the homes. Altars were built there where the crosses raised and were adorned with flowers and with objects displayed beside them which conferred distinction and prestige.

Ceramic pieces, copper, manila shawls and everything which would suggest abundance was selected for exhibition on these occasions. Plants, fruit, grains and everything related with the typical vegetation of this time of year also had its place.

In the neighbourhoods, the less powerful classes organised collective crosses in squares and courtyards, where the neighbours lent their best possessions for adorning the altars.