Palacio de los Cordova

This guide to Palacio de los Cordova in Granada spans the forty-six years between the demolition of this Renaissance mansion in the early 1900s, when the city cleared it for a theater, and its return decades later. It follows archaeologist Manuel Gomez-Moreno as he sketched the arches and carved ceilings before the stones were lost, and the mayor and duke who revived the project in the 1960s using his drawings as a blueprint. Stand in the courtyard beneath the cypress trees and look up.