Around the world there are many legends about houses and haunted places where mysterious apparitions have been reported.In Granada there is a house with a blinded balcony that hides a story of love and horror.Join us to know the legend of the apparitions and the blinded balcony of the Casa de Castril in Granada.
The legend of the Casa de Castril in Granada
In the Carrera del Darro , located in the Albaicin neighborhood, which has magnificent views of the Alhambra, in Granada, you will find a historic building known as Castril's House. As we can see it was built 1539, on the foundations of an old Arab palace, by Hernando de Zafra who was secretary of the Catholic Monarchs during the conquest of Granada.Among the particularities of the building are a balcony blinded in the upper corner and the message that crowns him, which reads like this:
«Waiting for the d Heaven »
Legend has it that Hernando de Zafra, a widowed and moody man, settled in the mansion he had built with Elvira, his 18-year-old daughter The girl fell in love with one Alfonso de Quintanilla who, unfortunately for both of them, was an offspring of an enemy family of Zafra.As the father strictly opposed the relationship, the lovers found themselves hiding in Elvira's room in the House of Castril. A young page helped them in their care.
One night, when the lovers were reunited, the father entered Elvira's chambers and almost surprised Alfonso in the chamber, but the lover had time to jump down the balcony and to flee.In it he found his daughter, half dressed, with the young page that had run to warn them.Don Hernando, thinking that the page had dishonored Elvira, was angered and ordered to be immediately hung from the balcony of the room.boy asked for justice, but the man said to him:
«Ask for as much justice as you want.There you can be waiting for heaven from heaven as long as you please»
Zafra, later, sent to blind the balcony and put on top of it the phrase "Waiting for Heaven" that we can see on the facade.The daughter was locked in her room Bitacion, with the balcony boarded up, and finally committed suicide by swallowing poison .
The apparitions of the Castril House
The building had several owners and was destined to several uses, among which the Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Granada and the headquarters of the Diputacion de Granada stand out in the last decades.In the successive remodeling works some human bones have been found buried in the house.Between this fact and the legend, Castril's House is reputed to be a haunted building and for greater abundance several people have reported paranormal phenomena and apparitions between its walls .Some workers have been able to see a tall, dark-haired lady, dressed in white and with a candle in her hands that walks through the rooms of the palace.They all explained that In the presence of the appearances of Casa Castril they felt a strange peace.
Due to other phenomena such as noises, dragging of furniture, blows, voices, photocopiers that they work alone or alarms that jump for no reason, they came to ask for help from paranormal research groups, the case of the occurrences of Casa Castril being one of the most disturbing that you know today.
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