As soon as you enter Granada you will have to say "wow, I could stay here a week". Granada is a very colorful and charming city. The fact is that Granada is "THE MUST" of Nicaragua, truly a colonial jewel founded in 1524 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, today is the oldest colonial city in the continent of America, not including the Caribbean.

We will talk about the different architecture of Granada, the colonial which is the way the Spanish built their houses when they settled in and made Granada a city; adobe walls (clay, straw and egg whites), wooden pillars, burnt red tiles on the roofs, classy corridors with a central garden and a fountain that opens up to the sky, and humongous doors for the entry of horses which help us to remember that we didn't always have gas run cars to get from one point to the other. Granada in its days was a very important city being the other important city Leon. You can take a carriage ride if you like; the horses have been there since the colonization era to get around and only the predominant figures where able to own one.

ACTIVITIES

The Islands of Granada

Mombacho Volcano

Laguna de apoyo