Granada Airport

About Granada

Granada is the most visited spanish resort by tourists from all the world. The long-time capital of Moorish Andalusia has to offer the most important reminds of this epoch in Spanish history, with the world-famous "Alhambra" at the top of the list.

You can walk through beautiful gardens, charming narrow streets filled with flowers, sit down in one of those typical taverns to have some of that famous "Trevélez" ham and local wine, and breath the history around you anywhere. There are gypsies singing "Flamenco", and don't miss to visit their famous "Cuevas" - caves - in the mountain of the monastery of Sacromonte where some of them really live still nowadays making magnificent artisany. Granada's popular festivals, based as well on Moorish as Christian tradition, are most attractive.

Granada is located at the foot of the "Sierre Nevada", Spain's highest mountain-massif with great posssibilities for winter-sports. The highest peak, "Mulhacén" arrives to 3478 meters. Granada is not far from the Mediterranean sea, so it is a great place to visit in any season.

About Granada Airport

Granada airport is seventeen kilometres from Granada city centre in the district called Vega del Genil it maintains a scheduled traffic link with Barcelona and Madrid, providing a very important service for the social and economic development of Granada and its area of influence.

The airport has a passenger terminal with facilities for: departures, arrivals, cafeteria and restaurant, VIP lounge, car hire offices and other services.

During 2005, Granada registered a total of 875,831 passengers, most of these on domestic flights and with a marked season nature oriented towards Easter and the summer months. Granada airport also handled 15,747 flight operations and 65.8 tonnes of cargo.

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