1 The broke ground on the Catedral de Granada (Granada Cathedral) or if you want the official title - Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana de la Encarnación de Granada in 1526
2 It took 181 years for the cathedral to be completed.
3 The Cathedral had been intended to become the royal mausoleum by Charles I of Spain of Spain, but Philip II of Spain moved the site for his father's and subsequent kings' tombs to El Escorial outside of Madrid.
4 Unlike most cathedrals in Spain, construction of this cathedral had to await the acquisition of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada from its Muslim rulers in 1492.
