点评:THE ONLY REASON YOU NEED
Let’s be honest: everyone comes to Granada for the Alhambra, and everyone should. I visited twice within twelve hours during my four-week rail journey through Europe – the night visit to the Nasrid Palaces at 22.00 and the first morning slot at 8.30 the next day – and those two visits felt like two entirely different palaces. At night the stucco walls float in lamplight, the fountains are the loudest sound in the courtyards, and the Court of the Myrtles turns into a black mirror. In the morning the low sun climbs slowly down the walls of the Comares Tower, the air is still cool, and the Generalife gardens smell of water and box hedge. You cannot choose between these two experiences. Have both.
THE PIED PIPER INVASION AT 10.30
Here is the most useful thing I can tell you. Every single day at around 10.30 the tour buses arrive, and busloads of people pour through the gates following their guides’ raised umbrellas and lollipop signs like the rats following the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The atmosphere changes completely in about fifteen minutes. Between 8.30 and 10.15 I shared the Court of the Lions with a few dozen quiet people; by eleven it was a procession. So my two recommendations are simple: book the first morning entry at 8.30, or the night visit at 22.00 in summer – ideally both.
SKIP THE GUIDED TOURS
I do not recommend joining a guided tour here, and I say this having originally booked one. A group tour marches you through on the guide’s schedule, and the one thing the Alhambra demands is the opposite: time to sit down on a cool stone bench, stare at a muqarnas ceiling until your eyes adjust to its depth, and simply marvel at the splendour. No commentary is worth losing that. Buy an ordinary timed entry ticket, go at your own pace, and read up beforehand – the palace rewards silence, not headsets.
TICKETS: THE HARD TRUTH
Book months ahead, and use only the official Alhambra y Generalife website. I could not, because my plan came together while already travelling – and I paid for it dearly. Official night entry costs 12 euros at the ticket office; through resellers I paid many times that, and one operator even cancelled the “guided” part of my night visit six and a half hours before the start and turned out to be little better than a scam. Both visits still succeeded, but spare yourself the drama: official site, months ahead, first morning slot and the summer night slot.
翻译:你非去不可的唯一理由
说实话:所有人去格拉纳达都是为了参观阿尔罕布拉宫,也确实值得一去。在我为期四周的欧洲火车之旅中,我在12个小时内两次造访那里——一次是晚上10点参观纳斯里德宫殿,另一次则是次日早上8点半。这两次参观让我仿佛置身于两座截然不同的宫殿之中。夜幕降临时,灰泥墙壁在灯光映照下宛如漂浮在空中,喷泉声则成了庭院里最响亮的声音。桃金娘庭院变成了一面黑色的镜子。清晨,斜阳缓缓爬上科马雷斯塔楼的墙面,空气依然凉爽,赫内拉利费花园里弥漫着水与黄杨树篱的芬芳。你无法在这两种体验之间做出选择——不妨两者都体验一番。
上午10点半:吹笛手大军来袭
这里有一件我能告诉你的最实用的信息:每天大约10点半左右,旅游巴士便会相继抵达。成群的游客跟着导游手中高举的雨伞和指示牌涌入大门,就像哈梅林的吹笛人带领着一群老鼠一般。大约十五分钟后,整个氛围就完全变了。8点30分到10点15分期间,狮子庭院里只有几十个安静的游客;到了11点,这里就变成了一支蜿蜒行进的人流。因此,我的两个建议很简单:要么预订早上8点30分的入场券,要么在夏季选择晚上10点的夜间游览——理想情况当然是两者都选。不必参加导游带团的游览
我不建议参加这里的导游团,虽然我最初也预订了这样的团。跟团游览时,一切都得按照导游的安排进行;而阿尔罕布拉宫真正需要的恰恰是相反的做法:有足够的时间让你坐在凉凉的石凳上,凝视着那些复杂的穆卡纳斯穹顶,直到双眼能完全领略其精妙之处,再尽情沉醉于这份壮丽之中。任何讲解都抵不上这种体验。不妨购买一张普通的定时入场券,按自己的节奏来游览吧。事先做好功课吧——宫殿崇尚沉默,可不喜欢戴耳机的人。
门票:残酷的真相
务必提前数月预订,且仅能通过阿尔罕布拉宫与赫内拉利费宫的官方网站购票。我没能做到,因为我的行程计划是在旅行途中才定下来的——为此我付出了惨重代价。在售票处购买夜间入场券的价格仅为12欧元;而通过黄牛或第三方倒卖渠道购票的话,价格则要翻好几倍。有一位运营商甚至在活动开始六个半小时前取消了我夜间参观行程中的“导游服务”环节,其行为简直就是欺诈。虽然两次参观最终都成功了,但还是劝大家别自找麻烦:直接通过官方网站预订吧,提前数月预约,选择早上第一个时段或夏夜时段即可。