Important Monuments
The Alhambra World Heritage Site is Granada's biggest tourist attraction. It is one of the very finest architectural legacies of Moorish rule in Spain, which in Granada lasted from 711 until 1492.
There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at Granada and Guadix.
The Royal Chapel of Granada houses the remains of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516), as well as their daughter Joanna of Castile and her husband Philip the Handsome.
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