THE CAVES OF SACRAMONTE
Granada’s Sacromonte district, just north of the famed Alhambra fortress and just east of the Moorish quarter of Albayzín, is or was home to the city’s thriving Roma (Gypsy) community. A flood in the sixties ended centuries of habitation in these caves.
The first Roma arrived in Granada in the 15th century — and they’ve remained ever since. Today 50,000 Roma call Granada home, many of them in the district called Sacromonte. In most of Spain, Roma are more assimilated into the general population, but Sacromonte is a large, distinct Roma community..
These affordable, practical cave dwellings — warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Many consider the area to be the birthplace of Flamenco
