Archive for May, 2008
The gems of Granada
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
We picked up this article on Granada real estate in the Financial Times this morning. It’s written by Jane Monahan and charts the work to protect the city’s architectural heritage.
She describes restoration projects on two of the most prestigious residential properties in the colonial city.
Granada is one of the first cities Spain founded in the New World in 1524. We invite you to tour its very walk-able historic center and experience its traditional colonial architecture first hand.
It’s one of the gems of Central America.
“Granada – the city in the south of Nicaragua, not its namesake on the other side of the Atlantic – is, in spite of its relative obscurity, one of the gems of Central America, with its fine churches and elegantly proportioned porticoes, a volcano rising raggedly above it and Lake Nicaragua shimmering at its feet.” Read the whole article.
