Plaza de Bib-Rambla sits at the heart of Granada, but its name is a clue to a vanished world. It means 'gate of the river plain' in Arabic, referring to the Moorish city gate that once stood here. That gate was demolished in the 1800s, though rebuilt since in the forest below the Alhambra.

Eight hundred years ago this was Granada's daily market, placed just inside the city walls beside the River Darro, the main mosque and the silk trading halls of the Alcaicería. After the Christian conquest, it became a place for festivals and bullfights, but also for the Inquisition. In 1500, Cardinal Cisneros ordered around 80,000 Arabic manuscripts burned here, most of them nothing to do with religion.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the square's layered past, connecting its Moorish origins to the violence of the Reconquista and the transformation of Granada from Islamic city to Castilian one.