Casa de Zafra y Centro de Interpretación del Albaicín
Restored Nasrid house with a stuccoed courtyard, once handed to a secretary as a spoil of conquest.
This guide to the Casa de Zafra in Granada's Albaicín asks why a Nasrid noble house of marble columns and stuccoed arches carries the name of Hernando de Zafra, secretary to the Catholic Monarchs who helped end that Muslim world rather than build it. It follows the secret channel of letters Zafra ran to Muslim courtiers inside the besieged city in 1492, trading promises and reportedly gifts for small betrayals during the final months of the war. The stuccoed arches and horseshoe doorway around the courtyard were carved for Nasrid nobles, not for the secretary whose household simply moved in afterward.
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