If, walking through Granada, 500 metres West from the city center, you can get into the monastery of San jerónimo, built in the Renaissance style in the 16th century. Originally the monastery was founded in Santa Fe, a suburb of Granada, but after its liberation from the domination of the Moors by the Catholic kings, the monastery was moved to Granada in 1500. On a new monastery building in the Renaissance style were such great masters as Siloam Diego, Kokomo Florentino, Juan de Aragon, Juan Bautista vázquez El Moso. In the monastery of San jerónimo houses the remains of Fernando Gonzalez de Cordova, the right hand of the Catholic kings in military matters, called the Great captain, and his wife. Stone tomb of their remains, is located in front of the altar.

The basic structure of the monastery is made in the form of a cross, the Church has one nave and is decorated with a ribbed vault, built in the Gothic style. The walls of the monastery with large buttresses decorated with coats of arms of the Great Fernando gonzález de Cordoba and his wife. The building of the monastery has several covered galleries, one of which is decorated capitals, supporting pointed arches and two magnificent portals, decorated with carvings in the plateresque style, by architect Siloam Diego. Individual attention is a series of brightly colored sculptures placed inside the monastery Church.

During the war with the French in the 19th century the monastery had suffered significant damage. From 1916 to 1920 in the monastery restoration works were carried out under the supervision of architect Fernando Wilhelm.