Palacio de Carlos V

Carlos V, King of Spain and Emperor-elect of Germany, decided to build his royal palace in the Alhambra, after his visit to Granada after their wedding in Seville with Isabel of Portugal in 1526. Implementation, despite its formal design and quality, changed the face of changing their inner fabric enclosure and the connection to the city. The original project included a large square arcaded west and a smaller southern significantly modifying access.

Carlos V, King of Spain and Emperor-elect of Germany, decided to build his royal palace in the Alhambra, after his visit to Granada after their wedding in Seville with Isabel of Portugal in 1526. Implementation, despite its formal design and quality, changed the face of changing their inner fabric enclosure and the connection to the city.

Is an important part that is in Alhambra. The meaning can be given to this work is the "victory" of Christianity over

The building was implanted in the heart of the Muslim Alhambra at one end of the Courtyard of the Myrtles, and for its construction was necessary to bring down a flag opposite the Tower of Comares. This fact has been the subject of criticism and controversy, must be understood in the context of his time: The Palace of Charles I did not mean both the destruction of part of the Alhambra as the guarantee of survival of the rest.In an era when more common was the total destruction of palaces and temples of the subject peoples, the sensitivity of the Christian kings to the undeniable beauty of the Alhambra made it necessary to enjoy it from within and thus to preserve it.

Since 1958, the Palace houses the Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada