About this app

The Alhambra of Granada MUSMon.com Audio Guide explains in a clear, relaxed, accurate way this World Heritage Site. It comfortably guides you, at your own pace, using interactive maps and pictures. It tells you everything you need to know through a 70-minute professional recording, making your visit more entertaining and memorable.

With our mobile Audio Guide, you will understand the intrigues that make Boabdil to become the last Sultan of Granada. You will also learn how this story is related to a captive Christian princess who converted into Islam and married King Muley Hacén. You will know how this monument evolved from a fortress into a palatial citadel. We will show you details of the defensive construction, the shape of the doors and entries, when and why the towers were turned from square to round, or how it was magnified with its most beautiful patios and halls during its golden age in the reigns of Muhammad V and Yusuf I.

You will learn how the Catholic Monarchs’ grandson, Charles V, the most powerful man in the world at the time, had his palace built here.

We will explain to you the influence of the romantic travellers, especially Washington Irving who, with his book Tales of the Alhambra, contributed to spread the knowledge about the Alhambra and its eventual recovery at a time when the monument was deplorably abandoned.

We will also explain to you Islamic culture and art and provide you with the key to the history of Alhambra, all livened up with anecdotes about personalities who passed by, such as Napoleon, the Count of Tendilla, Chateaubriand and Sorolla.

The app allows you to:
•Listen to entertaining, quality narrations developed by professionals.
•Quickly and easily find the work you want to listen to through its location on the map, a detailed picture gallery, or a search by author or title.
•Choose between the suggested itineraries or simply guide yourself following your own tastes and time schedule.
•Orientate yourself at any time thanks to the interactive GPS positioned maps.
•Access all the useful information about the museum: opening hours, accessibility, website, etc.
•Read the explanations in text format.
•Forget about queues at the withdrawal and deposits desks. Enjoy this and future visits with the convenience of having everything on your mobile phone.

We guide you and show you the secrets of:
- The Medina
- The Wine Gateway and the Water Cistern Square
- The Keep
- The Bailey (the dungeons and the military quarters)
- The Wall-Walk Garden
- The Candle Tower
- Hall of the Mexuar
- The Prayer Room
- The Courtyard of the Golden Room
- The Myrtle Courtyard
- The Ship Room
- The Comares Room
- Courtyard of the Lions
- The Abencerrajesí Hall
- The Hall of the Two Sisters
- The Lindaraja Belvedere
- The Emperorís Study
- Washington Irvingís rooms
- The Lindaraja Courtyard
- The Partal palace and gardens
- The Pointed Tower
- The Palace of Charles V
- The Generalife
- The Dismounting Yard
- The Water Channel Courtyard
- The Sultanaís Garden
- The Water Garden