International Music and Dance Festival

Music and Dance Festival, International

June-July

One of the most important music and dance festivals in Europe, the festival in Granada, Spain, celebrated its 50th year in 2001. It features an array of international orchestras and performers in settings of incomparable grandeur, such as the Alhambra (a 14th-century palace built for the Moorish kings), the adjoining Renaissance palace of Charles V, and the theater of the Generalife Gardens.

CONTACTS:
Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada
Corral del Carbon, Calle Mariana Pineda s/n
Granada, 18009 Spain
34-958-221-844; fax: 34-958-220-691
www.granadafestival.org/index.asp

SOURCES:
GdWrldFest-1985, p. 162
IntlThFolk-1979, p. 337
MusFestEurBrit-1980, p. 136
MusFestWrld-1963, p. 165