Haven Nº 017 — The Alhambra, Granada
Parador de Granada
The Alhambra empties at six. On winter weekends its palaces reopen at eight, and your room is inside the walls.
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Paradores, old ovens and late dinners.
A convent inside the Alhambra where you can sleep, and in Madrid the oldest restaurant in the world, by Guinness’s count. Each turns on an hour: in Granada, the closing that sends the day visitors down the hill; in Madrid, the two times Botín says it keeps bookable.
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Haven Nº 014 — Centro, Madrid
Sobrino de Botín
One wood oven has fed this Madrid house since 1725. The table to ask for is upstairs.
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