Corral del Carbón
Nasrid merchants' inn built around a stone courtyard fountain, the sole survivor of its kind.
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This guide to the Corral del Carbón in Granada opens with a claim: it is the only building of its kind left standing on the Iberian Peninsula, and the reason has little to do with the sultan who built it. It follows the funduq raised before 1336 for Yusuf the First, where merchants stored grain, silk and dye below and slept above around a fountain courtyard linked by a bridge to the market beyond. The guide traces its slide after 1492 into a theater, then a coal yard, the source of its everyday name today. Picture merchants' mules crossing the same stone courtyard where the fountain once ran continuously.
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