Arco de las Pesas

This guide to Arco de las Pesas in Granada starts with the rusted weights still bolted above the gate, seized long ago from market traders caught cheating customers with a lightened scale. It traces the gate's double life as an eleventh-century citadel checkpoint, bent at a sharp angle against attackers, while officials there also managed a hidden channel diverting water from a spring called Fuente Grande, ten kilometers north near Alfacar. You'll hear how that water threaded through the Albaicín's streets. Stand in the bend of the arch, where both duties once overlapped.