The total gold
Every centimetre gilded — a treasury with vaults open.
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After the Alhambra, Albaicín and the cathedral trio — that is, in Granada's second day: its dazzling half hour suits a lower-town morning before the heat's siesta. Baroque devotees promote it several ranks.
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The San Juan de Dios basilica is Granada's chamber of gold: an eighteenth-century church whose Baroque gilded every centimetre until its interior was called Spain's densest church gold — walls, altars and domes glittering like an opened treasury, the audio guide threading through the dazzle the life of its patron: John of God, carer of the sick and founder of modern nursing, buried at its shrine. A dazzling half-hour station completing the nearby cathedral and Royal Chapel — the trio together showing Castilian Granada's full face before the climb into her Andalusi hills.
Every centimetre gilded — a treasury with vaults open.
Modern nursing's founder at his silver shrine.
Calle San Juan de Dios 23, 18001 Granada