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Signage & Signification (final in series: a Spanish hotel’s pointed reminder to guests from the USA)

 

 

 

 

Actually, two continents comprise most of the Americas, but the Spanish hotelier’s point is well-made.

I suspect that few guests from the USA even notice the “writing on the hotel lobby wall”,  let alone grasp its message.

This hotel has a most “unlikely” name, given its quintessentially Andalusian location.

The Hotel America has 17 rooms and a (good) courtyard restaurant which serves homestyle Granadan food.

Owned and operated for generations by members of a local family, it feels not the least bit “American”, but its name is no accident.

The Hotel America sits unobtrusively within the grounds of Spain’s #1 tourist attraction.

 

 

Hotel America is within the grounds of La Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Photo ©️ Doug Spencer, 05 November 2025.

 

 

Click here for the Garzon family’s engaging little history of their delightfully “unlikely” hotel and how/why it was named “Hotel America”.

Granada’s La Alhambra is one of the world’s manmade wonders; it contains some of “our” planet’s most exquisite interiors.

You can see some of them in a few weeks from now, on Pelican Yoga.

 

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