The Royal chapel, located in the center of the city, is the most ancient building belonging to the complex of the Cathedral of Granada. It was erected under the direction of architect Enrique de EGAS in 1505-1506. The Royal chapel is the place where the remains of the Christian kings of Spain – the most revered Granada Spanish governors of Queen Isabella, king Ferdinand, their daughter, Queen Juana, her husband king Philip and his eldest grandson Infante Miguel, who died at an early age.

Royal chapel designed in the late Gothic style. The authorship of the tomb resting here Royal couple Isabella and Ferdinand belongs to the famous Italian architect Domenico Francelli, who created her out of Carrara marble. The tomb is richly decorated with sculptural elements and surrounded by a lattice extraordinarily beautiful and fine workmanship. The tomb of Queen Juana and king Philip was created by Spanish sculptor by Bartolome Ordoñez.

The main pride of the Royal chapel – the old altarpiece, made of wood and gilding sculptor Felipe Vigarny in 1520-1522, and located in the main altar. Created in the plateresque style, it tells the story of the liberation of Granada from the Muslims, and subsequent baptism. On both sides of the altar are wooden statues of the king and Queen, which the author has depicted standing on her knees.

In the Royal chapel also houses a Museum which presents a collection of mainly paintings by Flemish, Italian and Spanish painters of the 15th century, to collect which was started by Queen Isabella. Among them you can see works by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Dirk Bouts, Bartolome Bermeja, Botticelli and Perugino.