MONASTERY AND CHURCH OF SAN JERÓNIMO

Church and convent by El Florentino, El Indiano and Diego de Siloé. The altarpiece is a wonderful piece. The sepulcre of Fernando González de Córdoba, the Great Captain is located incide the church.

Founded in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs in the nearby town of Santa Fe, it was soon moved to the capital and the building works began in 1500 on the former Nublo orchards, property of the former Nasrid kings. The Renaissance transept and the main chapel are works by Jacopo Florentino and Diego de Siloé. Its layout conforms a single nave Latin cross, covered by a Gothic fan vaulting with side chapels and the most notable octogonal apse which the magnificent altarpiece fits to. The impressive outside, with important contraforts, is adorned with the coat-of-arms of the Great Captain and his wife held by soldiers. The front is notable because of its sobriety. The convent owns several cloisters. The first of them is Gothic, with basket-handle archs, fantasy images capitals and beautiful Plateresque fronts, works of Siloé and his school. The second one conformed in an early Renaissance style and its dimensions are smaller.

Tickets: -At the ticket office or with the City Pass.