Museo Cuevas del Sacromonte. Centro de Interpretación del Valle del Darro.

About this audio guide

This guide to the Museo Cuevas del Sacromonte in Granada starts in a real cave kitchen, the blackened hearth where the valley's signature dish, tortilla del Sacromonte, was actually cooked by the Roma and Morisco families who lived in these hollowed rooms from the fifteen hundreds until floods drove them out in 1963. It follows what they farmed, what they refused to waste, and the unwritten plant knowledge the women here carried, knowing what seasoned a stew, what eased a fever, and what was kept for something closer to magic. You'll also hear how the cave itself worked, keeping a steady temperature through Granada's summers with no electricity at all.