Plaza Nueva
Renaissance square built over a vaulted river, fronted by a former royal high court's stern stone facade.
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This guide to Plaza Nueva in Granada centers on the heavy oak door of the Real Chancilleria, the supreme court Queen Isabel the First founded in 1505 to hear appeals from across southern Spain. You'll hear why most people who lined up here were not fighting over crimes at all, but over the single word hidalgo, hiring lawyers and genealogists to chase noble blood through generations of parish records at ruinous cost. The guide also traces what lies beneath the square itself, sealed away in 1506 to solve a very different problem.
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