After the death of Contreras in 1847, his son Rafael continued his work for nearly four decades.

An extensive repair and rebuilding program was undertaken in 1828 by the architect José Contreras and endowed by Ferdinand VII in 1830. In 1821 an earthquake caused further damage to the complex. In 1812 some of the towers were blown up by a French force under Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani during the Peninsular War (War of Independence), and the rest of the buildings narrowly escaped the same fate.

Charles V, who ruled in Spain as Charles I (1516–56), rebuilt portions in the Renaissance style and destroyed part of the Alhambra in order to build an Italianate palace designed by Pedro Machuca in 1526. After the expulsion of the Moors in 1492, much of the interior was effaced and the furniture was ruined or removed. The splendid decorations of the interior are ascribed to Yūsuf I (died 1354).

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