Royal Chapel of Granada
Late Gothic royal mausoleum holding marble effigies above and the plain lead coffins of Spain's Catholic Monarchs below.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Royal Chapel of Granada takes as its opening puzzle a modest little crown, barely the size of a dinner plate, that belonged to Isabella the First of Castile, the queen who with Ferdinand ended the war for this city in 1492. It walks you to the marble effigies of the two monarchs and their daughter Joanna and her husband Philip, carved by the Florentine sculptor Domenico Fancelli, and to the 1504 royal warrant that ordered this chapel built as their burial place. You'll hear how Joanna and Philip's marriage tied Spain's crown to the Habsburgs. Stand between the crown in its case and the effigies on their platform, and decide for yourself which one looks more like Isabella.
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