Granada's richest treasures

The science park, known as the Parque de las Ciencias in Spanish, is based just outside the center of Granada. Visiting it makes a fantastic day-out for the whole family. 

The Parque de las Ciencias opened in 1995 and was Andalusia’s first interactive museum.

It covers more than 70,000m2  – the park is big. Very big. You’d probably need a couple of days to see it properly.

As the museum is conveniently divided into sections, you can plan beforehand what you really want to see and leave the rest if you have any time.

One of the most fascinating, is a mind game. You sit in front of an “adversary” with your head resting on a metal “reader.”

Between the two of you, is a machine with a metal ball inside, you push the ball using the gamma waves you transmit. The person who is the most restful and meditative wins. Amazing stuff !

This year’s temporary exhibition features fifty mummies from different countries. There are pieces from 24 different organizations across the world.

Collaborating institutions are the Library of Alexandria (Egypt) el Anthropological and Ethnography Museum of the University of Turin (Italia) the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology de Bolzano (Italy), The university of Oporto´s Natural History Museum (Portugal) the Museums Partner of Innsbruck (Austria) and the Suermondt-Ludwig- Museum in Aachen (Germany). 

Truly an international effort and one of a kind.

Granada Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Incarnation (Spanish: Catedral de Granada, Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana de la Encarnación de Granada) is the cathedral in the city of Granada, capital of the province of the same name in the Autonomous Region of Andalusia, Spain. The cathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Granada.

Granada’s cathedral has a rectangular base due to its five naves that completely cover the cross, which doesn’t stand out over the floor-plan. All of the five naves are staggered in height, the central one being bigger. At the foot of the cathedral there are located two towers. The left one, called the tower of San Miguel, being a buttress which replaced the planned tower on that side.

The main chapel consists of a series of Corinthian columns on which capitals is the entablature and, over it, the vault, which houses a series of delicate stained glass windows.

The facade consists of a framed structure in the form of a triumphal arch with portals and canvas. It consists of three pillars crowned by semicircular arches supported on pilasters, similar to San Andrés de Mantua of Leon Battista Alberti. The pilasters don’t have capitals but projections sculptured in the walls, as well as attached marble medallions. Above the main door is located a marble tondo from José Laughing on the Annunciation. It should also be highlighted the presence of a vase with lilies at the top, alluding to the virgin and pure nature of the mother of God.

The sacrarium, raised between 1706 and 1759, follows the classic proportions of the whole, keeping the multiple columns of the transept the shapes of the compound of Siloam.