Royal Chapel

This was built before the Cathedral. Doug paid €5 to go in to see King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella's final resting place. Nancy was content to see it from the outside. When King Ferd II of Aragon, and Queen Izzie of Castile married, Spain was united. They were a busy couple: sent Chris Columbus out to discover the New World the same year they drove the Moors out of the Alhambra in Granada after 800 years of occupation. Five of their seven kids survived to adulthood and they arranged strategic political marriages for all of them; centered on the House of Habsburg, this group became the most powerful family in Europe.

The Royal Chapel of Granada, also known as the Capilla Real de Granada, is an Isabelline style building that was built between 1505 and 1517. It is the burial place of the Spanish monarchs, Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand, the Catholic Monarchs. The chapel also contains a gallery of artworks and other items associated with Queen Isabella. The Catholic Monarchs decided to be buried in Granada because they saw its conquest as the crowning achievement of their reign. The chapel was built in the Gothic style and already existed as an institution with a Main Chaplain and twelve chaplains. The Queen died one year before the starting of the edification of the site, and the King died one year before the work was completed.Read more