{"id":2349,"date":"2021-09-09T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T08:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticketsgranadacristiana.com\/2021\/09\/09\/all-about-monastery-cartuja-de-granada\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T08:27:32","slug":"all-about-monastery-cartuja-de-granada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticketsgranadacristiana.com\/en\/all-about-monastery-cartuja-de-granada\/","title":{"rendered":"All about the Cartuja Monastery in Granada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carthusian Monastery of the Charterhouse of Granada<\/strong><\/a>, also known as the Monastery of Our Lady of the Assumption \u2018La Cartuja’, built on the hills of Aynadamar, is one of the most representative works of Spanish Baroque architecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is located a few kilometres from the centre of the capital and is a large religious complex that housed the Carthusian monks for three centuries. Would you like to know all about its history? We’ll tell you all about it below!<\/p>\n

The history of the Carthusian Monastery of the Charterhouse of Granada<\/h2>\n

The monks from the Castilian Carthusian monastery of El Paular arrived in the capital of Granada at the end of 1514<\/strong>. They saw the desirability of creating a new seat in the city and it was Don Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdova <\/strong><\/a>who wanted to be the benefactor of the new monastery.<\/p>\n

It was at the beginning of the 16th century that the Gran Capit\u00e1n ceded part of his land<\/strong>, although he finally dissociated himself from the project and, in 1516, work was resumed with designs by Fray Alonso de Ledesma. It lasted three centuries.<\/p>\n

The monastery was built in a variety of styles, as the initial project was never completed and only part of it remains. This is because the cloister and the monks’ cells were destroyed in 1842.<\/p>\n

Until 1835, the Carthusian Monastery of Granada <\/strong><\/a>was inhabited. Today it is considered an Asset of Cultural Interest and a Historic-Artistic Monument, having been declared so in 1932.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The interior<\/h2>\n

The entrance to the complex is through a Plateresque doorway built in the 16th century by Juan Garc\u00eda de Pradas. <\/strong>It is built by a semicircular arch, which houses a niche that holds an image of the Virgin. <\/p>\n

The Monastery of the Cartuja de Granada <\/strong>consists of several rooms, which we will see below.<\/strong><\/p>\n