Felipe II - Granada, Andalucía, España
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ariberna
N 37° 10.632 W 003° 35.737
30S E 447127 N 4114696
Coat of a king
Waymark Code: WM162Y6
Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 04/23/2022
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
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In the façade of this Renaissense building, now courthouse of Granada, there is this relief of coat of arms of one king: Felipe II

"Coming from the old Town Hall on Calle Capitulares, it was found in the tympanum that crowned its façade. A quartered shield, whose elements we will describe below:
1st Quartered in a cross; 1 and 4 Castile, in Gules field a castle of gold, cleared of azure; 2 and 3 Lion on a silver field a lion rampant in purple (or gules) crowned in gold. (Gules) Heraldic name for the color red.
Above all, a shield loaded with the five corners of Portugal on a silver field. (Escuson) small shield placed in the center of it.
2nd Tertiary in stick; 1- The arms of Aragon, four of bars of gules in field of gold; 2- quartered in sotuer, the arms of the royal house of Sicily, the four bars of Aragon flanked by two saber eagles crowned with gold; and armed and minced in gules, 3- The kingdom of Jerusalem in a silver field a cross potentiated in gold outlined in gules, cut with an escarbucla.
(Sotuer), in heraldry it means sautor, cross, crossed cross or Cross of Saint Andrew.
3rd Cut in band; 1- The arms of the imperial house of Austria, in gules a silver band; 2- The arms of the Dukes of Burgundy (old), on azure fields three gold bands, gules border.
4ª Cut in band; 1- The arms of the Dukes of Burgundy in a field of azure planted with fleurs-de-lys; Campondra border of gules and silver; 2- The arms of the counts of Flanders, on a field of gold a rampant saber lion.
In the abyss of the shield in a curtained quarter, the arms of Granada.
In the center of the point and above it all, there is an escutcheon with a lion rampant and an eagle, both made of saber.
The shield is surmounted by an open royal crown, flanked by two tenant angels, below it a cartouche of which the border of the shield is part and below a golden fleece, its decoration responds to the Mannerist aesthetic in its entirety."

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Plaza Nova 10
Granada,


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