Museo Cuevas de Sacromonte

Frommer's Review

For decades under Franco's rule, Gypsies were scorned -- along with the architecture on their hill, Sacromonte -- and even often persecuted. Times have changed, and today their flamenco music is taken seriously, regarded as an art form and approached with a high degree of scholarship.

This living, breathing museum of a formerly vital but now-dying way of life combines 10 separate caves, each a former residence or crafts studio, along with common exposition areas and a botanical garden. Many tools are displayed, including a formidable-looking loom. There's also a carpenter's studio, a kiosk selling flamenco recordings and gift items, plus a staff who works to produce an ongoing series of cultural and ecological events that change on a rotating basis.

To reach the museum, walk up the steep cobble-covered paths from a point near the top of the Río Darro, from Paseo de los Tristes. This is a continuation of the much-visited Carrera del Darro, just across the ravine from the Alhambra. Or you can take bus no. 31 or 32 from the Plaza Nueva, at the bottom of the hill.

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