- TEXTS Castilian Plateresque Granada: The universal Spirit CASTILIAN PLATERESQUE During the age of Charles V architecture did not develop along the same lines in all his territories. In the eastern kingdoms inherited from the Catalonian Crown (Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia and Majorca), sparsely populated, center of a long-established, industrious but fragile Mediterranean empire, the need for ...www.fll.vt.edu/Culture-Civ/Spanish/texts/cultural/art/architecture/text1.html