Royal Chancellery of Granada
Renaissance-turned-Mannerist courthouse facade built to project royal power over newly conquered Granada.
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This guide to the Royal Chancellery of Granada opens with a blunt question: would you have dared tear down a fifty-year-old facade just because you thought it wasn't grand enough? That's what Fernando Nino de Guevara did on arriving in 1584 to run southern Spain's highest court, a tribunal Queen Isabel had planted here in 1505 as a message about who now ruled a recently conquered city. Look up at the doorway, where carved figures of Justice and Fortitude flank the royal coat of arms.
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