La Alhambra, arguably Spain’s most important historic building, is not in a hurry to repeat 2020 because it was a disaster, which is hardly a surprise.

With just over 71% fewer visitors, it has kissed goodbye to nearly 21m euros.

In 2019 this Nazarí palace attracted 2,718,264 visitors bringing in a not paultry sum of nearly 30m euros, whereas this year only 775,885 people visited the monument leaving 8.8m euros in the coffers.

Pandemic restrictions meant that it had to close its door between the 13th of March and the 17th of June, and then again from the 10th of November to the 1st of December.

Well, La Alhambra hasn’t looked emptier since Boabdil packed his bags and slung his hook. Let’s hope that this year brings back a thing that we used to call ‘normality.’

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)