Carrera del Darro is widely considered one of Europe's most beautiful streets, though not everyone agrees. The Granadinos themselves are rather emphatic about it: "la calle más bonita y romántica del mundo," they say. It means: "the most beautiful and romantic street in the world." Bold claim, perhaps a reasonable one.

The street runs alongside the River Darro, which gave Granada its name. People once panned the river's sediments for gold, and "oro" is probably where the name came from. The Darro has since been routed underground through much of the city, but here it still runs in the open, passing beneath seventeenth-century bridges and beside the eleventh-century Bañuelo bathhouse.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the street's layered past: Moorish hammams funded by a Jewish vizier, a church built over a mosque with a Mudejar carved ceiling, and the Paseo de los Tristes, the old funeral route, where the Alhambra looms above.