Santa Fe: the city built to besiege
1491 · Event
When fire destroys their siege camp before Granada, Ferdinand and Isabella answer by building a city of stone on the spot in eighty days — Santa Fe, gridded like a Roman camp, a statement that they will never leave. In it, that winter, Boabdil's envoys negotiate the surrender — and a Genoese petitioner named Columbus finally gets his contract signed.
On these timelines: The Fall of Granada, Spain, Master
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