Dehesa del Generalife

This guide to the Dehesa del Generalife in Granada follows the olive-covered slope below the Alhambra from its days as a sultans' hunting ground and cattle pasture to the olive plantation that replaced its oak trees in 1875. It traces the pine planted decades later and the 1995 agreement that turned the estate into a managed park. Forty sheep still graze the rows below the trees, bells clanking with every step.