Who we are
VisitArt is a company working in the development of quality activities for visitors relating to culture, art and heritage promotion. Cultural visits require a company with trained staff made up of art historians and official guides. This is what sets us apart.
We have more than 20 years’ experience in the development and creation of educational programs, visits by specialists, educational materials, research and cultural collaborations with public and private entities, both national and foreign.
Our enthusiasm and professionalism through theoretical knowledge, practical experience and an educational approach make the cultural experience a moment of enjoyment and a time felt and shared by the people who accompany us.
Art and history learning is shared and embraced in our visits.
We are sensitive and have the knowledge and the soul necessary to show it, and that’s why we are committed to excellence in our work.
Direction and management
The company director and manager is Juana Biedma Molina.
Holding a degree in Geography and History with specialisation in Art History from the University of Granada, she is a heritage interpreter and official tour guide with the Regional Government of Andalusia.
She is a specialist in the medieval hydraulic system of the Alhambra and the Albaicín, as well as the role of women in al-Andalus through its spaces.
She has been an occupational teacher/trainer in “guided route” courses for the Úbeda City Council (Jaén) and “History of Spanish Art” at the European Centre of Modern Languages (Granada).
She has been a teacher/educator in the educational outreach programs of the Granada City Council for the programs "Understanding the city", "Discover Granada" and "Once there was a leaf" for educational centres and adult schools. Social collaboration programs (2003).
She has been a teacher/educator for the Emasagra programs in collaboration with the Albaicín Foundation on “Cisterns of the Albaicín” and “The hydraulic system of the Alhambra and the Generalife” (2005-2008).
She has developed her teaching and outreach work within the Educational Program of the Alhambra (2008-2016) in all its programs and workshops dedicated to childhood, secondary, baccalaureate, university and adult education, as well as special education.
She has also been a teacher/educator in the “Draw” and "Meet" educational outreach programs of the Alhambra Museum (2008-2016) for childhood, secondary, baccalaureate and special education.
She has prepared the teaching materials for educational programs such as the Emasagra water program “The Hydraulic System of the Alhambra and Generalife" and the body of iconography, spaces and architecture in "The women of the Alhambra" for the Programa Educativo del Patronato de la Alhambra.
She has worked as a cultural mediator in the dissemination of the exhibitions “Matisse and the Alhambra” (Granada Museum of Fine Arts, 2010-2011), "Carmen Laffón: the landscape and the place” (Granada Museum of Fine Arts and Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation 2015) in the Palace of Charles V and “The skin of the Alhambra” (Casas de la Mimbre, 2018-2019) “Zirid Granada and the Berber universe” (Palace of Charles V 2020)
She has been participating in the “Visits guided by their specialists” program of the Board of the Alhambra and Generalife since 2006, with the following titles:
- “Canals, cisterns and pools” 2006
- “The Alhambra: water and architecture” 2007
- “The Alhambra: water that never rests” 2008
- “The fountain and the mirror: visions of water in the Nasrid palaces” 2009
- “Baths of the Alhambra: ritual, hedonism and poetry” 2010
- “The Alhambra: water, architecture and landscape” 2016
- “Women in the Alhambra: epigraphy, myth and orientalism” 2018
She has given conferences and seminars taking place in public settings such as the University of Granada at the Faculty of Sciences, the Darwin seminar "Water in the Alhambra: space, architecture and poetry" (2017) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts through a collaboration program with graduate students in Latin America, "Al-Andalus: art and history" (2018).
At the Alhambra Museum in her conference program “The piece of the month” with the following titles:
- “The jealousy of the greater Qubba” 2013
- “Plaster panel of the Bahw of Dar al-Mamlaka al-Sa'Ida” 2014
- “Cloth of the blind arch of the Generalife lookout” 2016
She has participated as a specialist in visits to the Alhambra for the following congresses:
- “IX Orbis latinus” 2019
- “Nasrid and Marinid Women in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean: XIII-XV Centuries in al-Andalus” 2019
She holds a certificate in the Pedagogical Aptitude Course from the University of Granada (1994-1995) and the Trainer of Trainers Certificate from the Andalusia Training and Employment Foundation (FOREM-A; 2002).
She has obtained accommodation and study scholarships at the Machiavelli Institute in Florence (2007), at the Centro di Lingua e Cultura Italiana "Torre di Babele" in Rome (2008) and at the Istituto Venezia in Venice (2010).
She holds language competencies in PLIDA B2. Certificato di Competenza in Lingua Italiana. Società Dante Alighieri. La Sapienza. Università degli Studi di Roma. Ministero degli Affari Esteri.
ISE I B1 del Trinity College London.
Course in “Arabic for historians and archaeologists” from the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Granada in 2018.
She collaborates with European colleges, lyceums and universities in conducting educational visits.
She has conducted and continues to conduct private visits for figures of the society, culture, and national and international politics in the city of Granada.
She is currently investigating aspects of gender and orientalism in the Alhambra (Granada) and in Tetouan (Morocco), having made several publications on the topic.
She belongs to APROHA (Professional Association of Art Historians of Spain) and has been part of its Board of Directors, first on the Training and Professional Advice Committee and later on the Cultural and Tourist Visits committee, dealing with the defence of professional skills of historians and art historians.
She works with different public companies in addition to those already mentioned in the Collaborations section, and in 2020 she signed a collaboration agreement with the Legado Andalusí Public Foundation of the Regional Government of Andalusia, through its program "Walks through Granada" which can be viewed in the Collaborate section of the website.
She also collaborates with different tourist agencies in the development of routes for domestic and foreign visitors, as well as with cultural management companies in Granada as a specialist.
She has attended multiple congresses, courses and conferences, among which are the following noteworthy venues:
The Prado Museum Madrid, Board of the Alhambra Palace of Granada, Complutense University of Madrid (El Escorial site), International University of Andalusia (Antonio Machado de Baeza site), University of Granada (Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences) (The Madrassa Centre of Contemporary Culture) (Mediterranean Centre of Almuñecar) (Al-babtain Chair of Arabic Studies of Granada), Andalusian Institute of Heritage in Seville, UNED de Úbeda, Department of the Environment of the Regional Government of Andalusia (Dílar lecture hall), CSIC of the Granada School of Arab Studies, Casa de los Tiros Museum (Granada).