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Hi All,
We have flights booked to Malaga the last week in November for 7 nights.
We are thinking we'd like to visit 2 out of Seville, Granada & Cordoba, but which 2.
I am sure all three will be amazing, so does it make much difference.
Sevilla and Cordoba
Seville and Granada with a detour to Ronda between the two.
But tbh, I think any combo would yield a good holiday, enjoy 👍
ooo - Ronda does look nice - we'll have to go again (with a bike)
If you decide on Granada, be sure to pre-book tickets for the Alhambra, they often sell out so entry on the day isn't allowed. I'd thoroughly recommend the Alhambra and I'm not one for paying to get in anywhere. Córdoba would be my second choice having done exactly this a few years ago during the Semana Santa (Easter) festivities. We subsequently did Sevilla and Cadiz and I much preferred Cadiz.
Granada, the Alhambra and do some skiing in the morning and swim in the Med in the afternoon.
Sevilla and Cordoba. Both beautiful cities, loads to do. The Alhambra at Granada is stunning but the city itself didn’t do much for me.
Seville and Granada 100% absolutely my favourite 2 cities in Spain. I spent 6 months traveling Spain recently and those were my fav cities. So many good ones though. The Alhambra in Granada is a must and then try to get off the beaten tourist track for amazing free tapas with every drink. We loved La Botilleria. Seville, the Plaza de Espania, walk along the river, Setas de Sevilla, Mecardo de Triana and Las Golondrinas restaurant nearby for proper locals restaurant. Stunning place. Go to Malaga market to eat seafood and drink Vermouth with the locals standing up at the bars.
Went to Seville and Cadiz in late feb early March this year. Loved Seville. Cadiz was just a day trip on the train. Not sure if we got to see it all. I’d go for Alhambra if I could
Seville and Granada with a detour to Ronda between the two.
If you go to Ronda you may as well go to Setinel too as It's fairly close.
We've just come back from Estepona. We don't really do towns/cities, there are sooo many historic little villages up in the hills that we prefer.
Going back next year for 5 weeks.
Humble brag there matey - just had 4 weeks in spain and returning for a longer stay soon.
Returning to the OP - do all three and +1 for the Alhambra.
I'm not a city person but very much enjoyed Granada & The Alhambra when we visited at Christmas, helped there was some quite good trail running local to our hotel.
Note: there is various places to buy Alhambra tickets, think we paid £13 each without a guide
Seville has a fantastic museum full of Roman stuff and Malaga itself is much underrated, drink at La Tranca and eat at Tapeo el Cervantes. Nice little flamenco centre in Malaga which does afternoon performances. Cadiz is great if you have time enough to get out to visit the sherry industry but Seville would be a better day trip.
Seville is the must-do from those three, don't miss the Alcazar there.
Malaga city is pretty cool as another option, and +1 for Cadiz. I like El Puerto de Santa Maria as well.
Have a fino and some seafood for me.
Wasn't overly impressed with Saville perhaps because it was too hot to do anything but hide from the heat. Grenada I liked and even if Cordoba was equally hot it was less oppressive, the mosque is worth a visit
IlOO here. I think esselfunkgrot has it for the win with 5 weeks.
I think I'll just go where the wind blows us. It will all be fab. I don't like skimming a place too shallow so we'll definitely do no more than 2 places this time.
We were actually in Seville in March 2020, we arrived the day Spain went in to Lockdown. In a totally bizarre way we saw Seville the way very few will and for that we were incredibly lucky.
Walking the quiet streets, hearing all the birdlife was truly magical. So we'll definitely return to savour the inside of all those places.
I think esselfunkgrot has it for the win with 5 weeks.
4 wasn’t quite enough, we might build it up to 6. 😂
We were in Nerja in June & had a ride to Malaga, mainly to visit the food market. The atmosphere was great but the market itself was a bit meh. Loads of stalls replicated. Parking was a bastid combined with the fact I’d forgotten where I’d parked. 🙄
Just back from a trip round Altea, Seville, Cadiz, Madrid and a few hours in Santander. I've previously been to Granada, Cordoba, Ronda and Cadiz (again), but that trip was about 18 yrs ago when I was about 17.
Definitely recommend Seville, it's an amazing place, loads of great bars and restaurants, and really, you can't go wrong with either Granada or Cordoba. Cadiz was nice, but the first time I was there me and my mate managed to find a hostel where you could sleep in the open on the roof which was pretty cool, none of that any more unfortunately. I think November could be pretty quiet there, the market had some cool food places but they shut early, so you may be best with Cordoba or Granada.
Santander was an unexpected treat, absolutely beautiful up there, definitely want to explore more of the northern coast.
Just back yesterday from 3 days in Seville, really lovely city with LOTS to see. 30oC for the 3 days we were there which was a real treat in October.
Another vote for Granada - the Alhambra is truly a special place.
I've not been to Cordoba, it's very much on 'the list', and you would love Sevilla, but rather than arsing around going East to go West, i'd spend some time in the much underrated Malaga, hit Granada, and then up to Ronda if i only had seven days.
We caught the train from Malaga to Sevilla and had a few days there. What disappointed me was that the place was 100% tourists or people in the tourist business. And (being used to Malaga and Tarifa) we almost missed dinner the first night as bloody everything shut at 11pm, the time we would normally eat in Spain.
Another time we went to Ronda. A proper tourist spot which changed dramatically at 4pm when all the coaches take the visitors away and it becomes a proper town again. Surprisingly we saw a really authentic flamenco show in the evening which you wouldn't expect in a place like that.
If you can find the details on line there is a walking tour of gypsy town/squats on the hill looking down on Granada which is excellent and explains a lot about their culture, the flamenco club in a cave is also great if you can find it as is the hamman.
Quick Google shows lots of crazy priced ones, I did one with a student where you pay what you like at the end. Think me and the ex Mrs gave her 50 euros. Few people sneaked off without paying who we bumped into later in a bar. They left pretty quickly when I described their personality traits to them:)