Monastery of Saint Jerome Approach
by Joan Carroll
Title
Monastery of Saint Jerome Approach
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Visit the Monastery of Saint Jerome (Monasterio de San Jeronimo) in Granada Spain and you will find "dulces" baked by the nuns of St Jerome right there at the front desk! It's hard to resist. Actually for me, it's impossible to resist. And impossible to wait to taste them. So after my visit, I walked outside to this courtyard to enjoy this view and eat my dulces! (Of course, I bought way too much for one person to eat and ended up having to give some away to the kind people running my B&B!) Outside the gates, the streets are crowded, hot and busy with the noonday crowds but inside it's quiet. Still hot, but at least there was some shade. I might have missed visiting here had I not run across a tourist office selling tickets for a discounted price for visiting five local religious sites. The Monastery of St. Jerome is a Roman Catholic church and Hieronymite monastery. When you enter the visitors area you can purchase an excellent brochure in several languages explaining all the areas that you will visit. Of all the places I visited in Granada, this had the most informative brochure available to an English-speaking visitor. The monastery was originally founded by the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in Santa Fe outside the city of Granada, during the siege of the latter city, the last stage of the Reconquista. The encampment was so plagued with insects that the founders "did not look like Monks of St Jerome, but rather like those of St Lazarus, so badly were they stung and bitten." Thus, the construction of the current buildings in Granada properly began in 1504, and the monastery relocated at that time. Although occupied again today by the same order of monks as at the time of its founding, the monastery has undergone many changes, including invasion by the French in the Napoleonic era during the Peninsular War. The Hieronymites were expelled and the monastery eventually became a near-ruin. The State undertook a restoration of the building in 1916-1920. Further restorations took place over the succeeding decades.
FEATURED PHOTO, Spain and The Iberian Peninsula group, 9/12/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Spanish Theme Artwork Group, 8/28/15
FEATURED PHOTO, The Road To Self Promotion group, 8/10/15
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August 10th, 2015
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