The Alhambra understandably didn't fare well under the Christians. A couple of churches were immediately plopped down on the site, and centuries later Napoleon tried, unsuccessfully, to blow the whole thing up. But the biggest change was King's Carlos V's decision to construct a huge palace in the middle of the structure. He cleared away about a third of the area for his palace, and the huge scale of the building dwarfs everything else and makes everything feel crowded and uncoordinated. Actually the building is a beautiful, if severe, example of Renaissance architecture, it just conflicts and overwhelms everything else in the neighborhood. Anyway, after he destroyed and started to build, he got bored with the whole project and abandoned it. He never lived there, and the elegant ring at the center of the palace was only used for bullfights.