Granada entdecken

The Royal Chapel of Granada is the burial place of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I and Ferdinand II, built in the Isabelline Gothic style between 1505 and 1517 beside Granada Cathedral. Behind a wrought-iron screen stand their marble tombs, with a crypt below; the sacristy museum holds Isabella's crown and sceptre, Flemish panel paintings from her collection and her missal.

Granada Cathedral, seat of the Archdiocese of Granada, was begun in 1518 by Enrique Egas on the site of the city's main mosque and continued from 1529 by Diego de Siloé, who gave it five naves and a circular main chapel in Renaissance style. Alonso Cano redesigned the main façade in 1667. Inside are two 18th-century organs and 16th-century stained glass.

The Royal Monastery of San Jerónimo is a Hieronymite monastery in central Granada, founded by the Catholic Monarchs and built from 1504, largely to designs by Diego de Siloé. Its Renaissance church holds the tomb of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the 'Great Captain', before a carved main altarpiece, and the visit includes two cloisters built around gardens.