Archaeological Museum of Granada
Renaissance palace facade carved with a legend of betrayal, sheltering galleries of Iberian, Roman and Moorish artifacts.
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This guide to the Archaeological Museum of Granada centers on three words carved above a balcony on its Renaissance facade, finished around 1593 by the sculptor Sebastian de Alcantara: esperandola del cielo, awaiting it from heaven. It traces the legend behind them, first written down in 1846, of the Zafra family's daughter Elvira, her secret courtship with a nobleman named Alfonso, and the servant boy, Luisillo, who stood lookout the evening her father came home early. Local legend says the family behind that facade turned one of its balconies into a gallows.
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