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The Carmen de los Mártires is a romantic 19th-century garden estate on the southern slope of the Alhambra hill. Its terraces, grottoes, ponds, and resident peacocks make it one of Granada's most enchanting green spaces.
The site takes its name from a dungeon where Christian captives were held during the Nasrid period. After 1492, a Carmelite convent was founded here (Saint John of the Cross lived on the site). The current gardens were designed in the 19th century by the Calderón family.