Palacio de Carlos V | Granada, Spain

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Palacio de Carlos V (Granada, Spain)

In the land of the Alhambra, the emperor Carlos V decided in 1527 to make a palace according to a renaissance man likes. He destroyed a room of the Alhambra (cuarto de Comares), but made a novel manierist palace (designed by Pedro de Machuca, a spanish artist that learnt with Michellangelo), with a circular courtyard at the inside and a square look at the outside. Carlos V never lived there, so the architecture is finished, but not in decorative aspects. Nowadays it works as a museum with Alhambra pieces.

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