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The Cathedral of Granada is one of the greatest achievements of the Spanish Renaissance, a vast and luminous church begun in 1523, soon after the Christian conquest, on the site of the city's main mosque. Initially planned in the Gothic style, its design was transformed by the brilliant architect Diego de Siloé into a soaring Renaissance space, and later given its monumental Baroque-influenced facade by the Granada-born painter, sculptor and architect Alonso Cano. The interior is famous for its height, its forest of great white pillars, and above all its spectacular rounded sanctuary, the Capilla Mayor, a dazzling drum of white and gold rising to a dome, intended as a grand mausoleum for the Emperor Charles the Fifth. Like several Spanish cathedrals it was never fully finished; of the two towers planned for its facade, only one was ever built, and even that stands shorter than intended.
Fatti principali
- 1523 year — Construction began on the site of the city's main mosque
- 1 tower — Only one of the two planned facade towers was ever completed
- 1 sanctuary — The soaring round Capilla Mayor was designed as an imperial mausoleum
📍 Plaza de las Pasiegas, 18001, Granada