Chris Pearrow
You have to see it for yourself!
This is perhaps the single most over-the-top and ostentatious building I've ever seen. There is no much striking detail and decoration in literally every inch of this place that it's hard to take it all in at once.
As far as the history goes, I can't tell you too much. It was built by the ruins of old synagogue which, after the Jews were expelled from Spain, became a chapel for the Jesuits who were in turn expelled from Spain themselves. The building eventually became the Royal Seminary of San Carlos and underwent extensive Baroque renovations during the 17th and 18th century.
I don't know even where to begin with this place.
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