Abadía del Sacromonte
Baroque abbey raised over Roman kilns where forged relics and lead books once surfaced.
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This guide to the Abadia del Sacromonte in Granada begins in 1595, when workers digging into Valparaiso hill broke into old Roman kilns and pulled twelve identities out of a pile of ash, based on lead tags that conveniently named each man in turn. Over the following decade, diggers kept returning and found twenty-two circular lead books inscribed in Arabic and Latin, with a gospel that flattered Granada's mixed Christian and Muslim community. Three of those twenty-two books have since vanished; nineteen still sit in the abbey's library.
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