Catedral de Granada
Renaissance church with a stump of an unfinished bell tower halted by unstable riverbank sand.
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This guide to the Catedral de Granada has you count towers in the square out front against architect Diego de Siloe's blueprint, which called for two matching bell towers, each eighty-one meters tall, rivaling anything in Renaissance Spain. You'll hear how Siloe took over the unfinished site in 1529, tore up Enrique Egas's earlier Gothic plan, and reengineered the cathedral around a Renaissance dome and a circular main chapel. The guide follows what happened to that twin-towered ambition. Look up at what actually survived the plan.
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