  We present the first results from the ALHAMBRA survey. ALHAMBRA will cover a
relatively wide area (4 square degrees) using a purposely-designed set of 20
medium-band filters, down to an homogeneous magnitude limit AB~25 in most of
them, adding also deep near-infrared imaging in JHK. To this aim we are using
the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope. A small area of the ALHAMBRA survey has already
been observed through our complete filter set, and this allows for the first
time to check all the steps of the survey, including the pipelines that have
been designed for the project, the fulfilment of the data quality expectations,
the calibration procedures, and the photometric redshift machinery for which
ALHAMBRA has been optimised. We present here the basic results regarding the
properties of the galaxy sample selected in a 15x15 square arcmin area of the
ALHAMBRA-8 field, which includes approximately 10000 galaxies with precise
photometric redshift measurements. In a first estimate, approximately 500 of
them must be galaxies with z>2.
