i always feel slightly depressed by beautiful vistas, you know i mean? ah, the storybook kingdom of granada. one of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain. and one of the most beautiful. granada is tucked against the sierra nevada mountains of andalucia in southern spain. it s not like barcelona. it s not like saint sebastian. it ain t madrid. any reasonable person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they re going to fall in love. otherwise, there s something deeply wrong with you. spain is the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway. and in the very best possible way. this is the country that gave us the spanish inquisition. also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine with traditional tapa. christianity and islam traded places, shared space. the effects of influences of all those things are right here to see. you can almost look back through time and through the
You could almost look back through time and through the mists of history, see the phoenicians marching up, cross the vega. or are those feral hippies? an influx of international hippies, many of whom appear to have set up squats in the caves up the mountain, have made things interesting. if they ask what we re doing, you should say we re staging a moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, however, some things are constant it seems some stereotypical expectations. it s true, there are free tapas everywhere. yes, they do actually take siestas, which is a civilized damn thing to do, far as i can see. flamenco? yes, they do that also. but in granada, they do it old-school. and, oh, yeah, bullfighting. they do that here, too. but i digress. i m here actually to answer a question. what happens if you go over to the other side? say you grew up in the states,
One of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain, and one of the most beautiful. granada is tucked against the sierra nevada mountains of andalucia in southern spain. it s not like barcelona, it s not like san sebastian, it ain t madrid. any reasonable sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they re going to fall in love. otherwise, there s something deeply wrong with you. [ man chuckles ] anthony: spain s the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway, and in the very best possible way. [men chanting ] anthony: this is a country that gave us the spanish inquisition, also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine with traditional tapas. christianity and islam traded places, shared space. and the effects and influences of all those things are right here to see.
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Don t you feel like a little guilty, like, getting really drunk here? pedro: yeah, of course. anthony: whoa, uh, morcilla? pedro: morcilla. anthony: oh, this is one of my favorite things. pedro: this is your favorite things? anthony: ever. yes. pedro: try it. it s amazing. anthony: gaze away disapprovingly all you like, jesus. i am happy now. overlooking granada, the hillside of sacromonte is riddled with caves. many of them older than anyone even remembers. spanish gypsies or gitanos have lived here in caves-turned-homes like this for hundreds of years. [ man speaking spanish ] [ singing and clapping ] crowd: aley! aley!