Inscribed on the ramparts of the Alhambra is a testament created in rose coloured stone to the artistically enlightened rule of the Moors: "There is no pain in life so cruel as to be blind in Granada"
Within scarcely 50 kilometers the sweep of the land takes us from the highest peak in the Iberian Peninsula, Mulhacén (3,478 metres), to the extensive fertile coastal plains of Genil.
