Isabella and Ferdinand Order a Royal Chapel in Granada
Isabella and Ferdinand had already funded Columbus's first voyage, launched the Inquisition, and expelled Spain's Jews by the time they commissioned the Capilla Real in 1504. They wanted their burial chapel in Granada — the city they'd reconquered from the Moors in 1492 — as a statement that Christian Spain was permanent and royal. Isabella died just two months after signing the warrant, before a single stone was laid. Ferdinand was eventually buried there too. The chapel that was meant to be built for them was finished in 1521, 17 years after she commissioned it.
September 13, 1504
522 years ago
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