Museo Casa de los Tiros
Fortified nobleman's mansion with musket barrels set into its battlements and a Roman-hero facade in high relief.
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This guide to the Museo Casa de los Tiros in Granada opens with real musket barrels still jammed into the battlements above you, built to shoot back rather than decorate. It follows the nobleman Gil Vazquez Rengifo, who raised these fortified walls between 1530 and 1540 as part of Granada's old defensive perimeter, and his family, the Granada Venegas, descendants of Nasrid royalty who converted to Christianity yet were never entirely trusted by their new rulers. You'll see the facade's Roman heroes carved in high relief, the sword-pierced heart over the door, and the family motto that gave the house its edge of defiance.
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