Andalucia

Another trip I am planning for the hopefully not too distant future, is a roundtrip in Andalucia, visiting cities such as Granada, Cordoba, Sevilla, Cadiz, Ronda and Malaga.

Some of these cities must have a literary existence, surely.

In my library I have Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in Ronda, but lamentably I have not read it yet.

I have, however, read The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte, in which the city is almost a character.

I am sure there must be novels or stories set in some or all of these other cities as well, certainly Granada.

I did a tagmash on Andalucia, novel and came up with:
The alchemist by Paulo Coelho: this starts out in Andalusia, but travels around the mid-east. I've read this, and liked it, although I haven't quite got into Coelho's other books. I think the original of this novel is in Brazilian Portuguese.
The lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay is alternate history fantasy of medieval Spain.
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf is about a traveler in the middle east in the Middle Ages.

I have not read it, but I hear good things about Radwa Ashur's Granada: A Novel. At amazon.com

Nick Bantock's "The Forgetting Room" is set in Ronda. It's about a man who inherits his grandfather's house and art studio in the town of Ronda. Wrapped up in this home is a mystery that he unravels while exploring Ronda and rediscovering his love for art. Lovely and mysterious illustrations in this book too.

Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving will enrich any visit to Granada.