[The insigne and suntuoso Royal Hospital of Granada (I). Royal foundations and the hospital regrouping (1501-1526)].
In the 1520s the local authorities planned to set up a new modern hospital in the city of Granada by combining two existing Royal Hospitals: Alhambra and Reyes. As a public institution and as a new building, the new hospital could develop the mandates of the original foundation and extend its care to become a general hospital. In this way it would strengthen its status as a charitable undertaking and legacy of the Catholic Monarchs and, secondly, as a great architectural monument.
Valenzuela Candelario
José
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Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia. Facultad de Medicina. Avda. Granada, Spain. jvalenz@ugr.es
D005582:Foundations / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006768:Hospitals, Federal / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain; D013222:State Medicine / Q000266:history*