Víznar

CountrySpainProvinceGranadaMunicipalityVíznarArea • Total13 km² (5 sq mi)Elevation1,050 m (3,440 ft)Population • Total980 • Density75/km² (200/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

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.

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.^[2]

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37°07′N 03°35′W / 37.117°N 3.583°W / 37.117; -3.583