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Iglesia de Santa Ana

A graceful sixteenth-century church at the edge of Plaza Nueva, built over a former mosque, whose beautiful brick-and-tile bell tower was once the minaret from which the faithful were called to prayer.

Sobre este lugar

At the eastern end of Plaza Nueva, where the square narrows into the valley of the Darro, stands the Iglesia de San Gil y Santa Ana, a lovely church built in the 1530s to a design associated with Diego de Siloé, the architect of the cathedral. Like so much of Granada, it rose directly on the site of a mosque, and its most beautiful feature reveals that heritage: its elegant bell tower, built of warm brick and decorated with glazed ceramic tiles in the Mudéjar style, is widely held to have been the minaret of the former mosque, now crowned with Christian bells instead of calling the Muslim faithful to prayer. The church's facade, with its Renaissance portal, faces back down the square, and together with the murmuring river and the backdrop of the hills it forms one of the most photographed views in the city.

Datos clave

1537 year — The church was built in the 1530s on the site of a former mosque
1 minaret — Its brick-and-tile bell tower is believed to be the former mosque's minaret
1 style — The Mudéjar tower blends Islamic craftsmanship with its Christian role

📍 Calle Santa Ana 1, 18009, Granada

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