Mirador de la Lona
Small hillside platform over the Albaicin, once site of a legendary sail-canvas workshop later disproven by archaeology.
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This guide to Mirador de la Lona in Granada opens with a widely repeated legend that a workshop here once wove sails for the Spanish Armada, and the 2001 dig near the Callejon del Gallo that finally tested the story. It traces the site's real past instead, an eleventh-century palace rebuilt by a Genoese merchant, and later a crowded corrala tenement where more than two hundred families shared one courtyard. Listen here at the platform above the Albaicin, then look down toward the tapas bars filling the placeta below.
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