Sunny Spain

Author: Xi Mao
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: If this is a city in Spain, then when you arrive in Albaicín, you often find yourself in an Arab village, and a stylish one at that. Albaicín, a few years ago, was a place that sent shivers down your spine, the earliest residential area in Granada, as old as the Alhambra. It had always been a high-crime neighborhood. For some reason, it has transformed into a very bourgeois and fashionable district. It’s unclear whether it became safe first and then stylish, or stylish first and then safe. Anyway, now many places can become fashionable overnight for some reason, faster than making a small celebrity.