Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is the city of Granada.

Its area is 12,635 sq kms. Its population is 876,184 (2006), of whom about 30% live in the capital, and its population density is 64.82/km².  There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at Granada and Guadix.

While it contains magnificent beaches along the Costa Tropical the Province of Granada attracts an enormous number of tourists due to its Moorish architecture and culture which is personified in the famous Alhambra Palace. The Alhambra is a series of palaces and gardens built in the 14th century. Alongside the main buildings there is the Generalife, a summer palace with fountains and gardens. Two areas worth exploring are Sacromonte Hill, famous for its cave dwellings where once Granada’s gypsy population lived and the Albacin, a labyrinth of narrow streets and whitewashed houses with secluded courtyards known as ‘carmenes’.

Granada shares the Sierra Nevada National Park (in the Sierra Nevada mountain range) with Almería province. Within the Sierra Nevada there is the highest mountain in the Iberian Pensinsula, Mulhacén which measures 3,481m. In the winter the mountains of the Sierra Nevada play host to a small but thriving ski industry with what is Europe's most southerly ski resort. The southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada are called Las Alpujarras, which contains small villages with a clear North African influence set in attractive valleys and terraced fields. A recommended area for hiking.

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