Sacromonte is built into the hill: whitewashed cave dwellings cut into the soft rock, some still lived in, some now museums and venues. The neighbourhood grew as a Roma settlement and the zambra, its own form of flamenco, developed here.
⚠️ Be careful about what you book. Cave flamenco is a real tradition and it is also a heavily marketed tourist product, and the two are sold in the same street with the same photographs. Ask what you are getting.
The Museo Cuevas del Sacromonte explains the caves as housing rather than as spectacle, and the walk out along the ridge gives you the Alhambra from an angle almost nobody photographs.
Walk out along the Camino del Sacromonte in daylight even if you come back for a show — the geography makes far more sense when you can see it.
Sacromonte, photographed
