Like many other cathedrals in Andalusia, The Cathedral of Granada was built on top of the city’s main mosque after the reconquest of Granada.
Construction was not begun until 1518 in the centre of the old Muslim Medina, after acquisition of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada from its Muslim rulers in 1492. While its earliest plans had Gothic designs, most of the church’s construction occurred when the Spanish Renaissance style was supplanting the Gothic in Spanish architecture.
There is a grand sense of scale in the massive columns.
Ultimately the lavish use of gold in this and other churches in Spain I found to be a hideous travesty knowing how many innocents had to die in Mexico and Peru to bring all that gold back to Spain. To then offer it up to a God that somehow would want all this to happen is even worse.
Outside the Cathedral some beautiful apartment buildings
