plateresque

The intricate stonework is a great example of Spain’s Plateresque style, represented by delicate, detail-packed, filigree-like carvings.

But even this greatest Christian spot in Granada, with its lacy filigree style known as Plateresque for the influence of Moorish silverwork, shines with the artistic legacy of the Moors.

In the city itself are some ancient remains, such as a temple of Mars, and the fluted columns of a temple of Diana built into a medi�val house, which, by the way, has a lovely Plateresque window, but most of the ruins lie completely outside the present town.

There would be the grand staircase of this Cathedral, and it would ascend to a western portal like Le�n's, with Santiago's P�rtico de la Gloria within; the north and south doors would be Plateresque from Salamanca and Valladolid.

The third of the Plateresque buildings, well within Renaissance lines this last, the College of the Holy Cross founded by Cardinal Mendoza, now contains a grammar school, a library of some thousand volumes open to the public, and the Museum of the city.