Víznar

Víznar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain, only a few miles from the city of Granada itself. According to the 2005 census (INE), the town has a population of 789 inhabitants.

Víznar
town
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Location of Víznar
Country	Spain
Province	Granada
Municipality	Víznar
Area
• Total	13 km2 (5 sq mi)
Elevation	1,050 m (3,440 ft)
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	980
• Density	75/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

View of Víznar

Interior of the Viznar Palace, by Santiago Rusiñol

Site of the exquisite neo-classical Summer palace of an 18th-century archbishop of Granada, Don José Manuel Moscoso y Peralta, (1723–1811), an important figure in the history of Peru, the near-vicinity of Víznar was the place of execution, in 1936, of the noted Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.