Monasterio de San Jerónimo, Granada
Renaissance monastery church built across four decades by two rival architects, its stone seam still visible overhead.
This guide to the Monasterio de San Jeronimo in Granada reads the seam in its cloister where two architects who never fully agreed handed the project between them, starting around 1513 with a Florentine sculptor working in Gothic vaults. You'll hear how his successor, fresh from Italy, reworked the design mid-build into pure Renaissance form, and how the money behind it came not from a king but from one widow financing a mausoleum for her soldier husband. The guide also follows the bell tower overhead, torn down by French troops in the early eighteen hundreds, toward its eventual repair.
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