Cuesta de los Chinos
Steep cobbled ravine path once lined with river mills and channels feeding the Alhambra.
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This guide to Cuesta de los Chinos in Granada follows the steep path below the Alhambra through its working life: mills once turned by the Darro's current, and the acequias that carried water up to the fortress gardens. It traces the road's grim nineteenth-century nickname from the funeral processions that once climbed it, and the far humbler origin of the name it carries today. Look for the ruined mill stump on the right-hand bank as you climb.
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