La Cartuja and San Jerónimo, Granada: €7 and €8 tickets, winter hours, the Silentia night visit and the €33 combined ticket

💡 The Short Version: The Cartuja is €7 and shuts on Saturdays from 12:15 to 15:00; San Jerónimo is €8 and, in winter, closes from 13:00 to 15:00. Both are on the Archdiocese’s official shop, ticketsgranadacristiana.com, with an audio guide app in the ticket, and both close on 25 December and 1 January. The six-monument ticket is €33 for 7 days and pays only from the fifth monument. Silentia, a night visit to the Cartuja, is €18 on Thursdays to Saturdays. GetYourGuide resells single entries at €10. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the Cathedral and Royal Chapel tourad is from €38 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

The Archdiocese sells these tickets at ticketsgranadacristiana.com. GetYourGuide resells single entries to the Cartuja and San Jerónimo at €10 each with a booking fee, so buy from the shop.

The sacristy of La Cartuja. Photo: Palickap, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Hours: the shop prints one timetable for the Cartuja. San Jerónimo and the Abbey have winter and summer hours; the table gives the winter ones, which started for the Abbey on 26 October.
• Reduced: students up to 25, large families (ticket office only) and visitors with a disability, all with proof. Children up to 12 with an adult are free, but not school or tour groups.
• The six-monument ticket covers the Cathedral, the Royal Chapel, the Cartuja, San Jerónimo, the Sacromonte Abbey and San Nicolás. It saves €8 to €9 on the six singles and, because any four cost at most €32, it pays only from the fifth. After 28 November the Cathedral’s price falls to €7: see the Cathedral and Royal Chapel.
• Audio guide: an app, free with every ticket.
• The Granada Card includes the Cartuja, San Jerónimo and the Abbey: see the Granada Card sums.

The Silentia night visit

€18 · €15 reduced · 50 minutes · Thursday to Saturday and holidays

Silentia is the Archdiocese’s evening visit to the Cartuja, built on video mapping, light and silence in the sacristy and other rooms. The time follows the sunset, the group is limited, the meeting point is the cloister, and photos and recording are not allowed. Tickets are not refundable, and the shop recommends booking ahead on its Silentia page.

What to see

Allow about 50 minutes to an hour for each monastery. The two are on the north side of the city, away from the Albaicín.

The church of San Jerónimo, with its painted vaults and altarpiece. Photo: Benjamin Smith, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. La Cartuja. A Carthusian monastery begun in 1516, with a Plateresque portal, a church with altarpieces by Sánchez Cotán, a refectory hung with his paintings and a chapter house with paintings by Carducho. The sacristy is covered in white stucco in abstract geometric forms, with marble, wood and a rhomboid floor, and the Archdiocese says light is its essential element. Photos are allowed without flash, tripods or selfie sticks.
2. San Jerónimo. Founded by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 and moved to Granada in 1503, with monks living here from 1521 to 1835 and Hieronymite nuns since 1977. The visit takes in the cloister, refectory, sacristy and the church, whose main chapel by Diego de Siloé is the burial place of the Great Captain, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. The Empress’s cloister, where Isabella of Portugal stayed in 1526, can be seen but not entered. Photos are allowed if they do not disturb prayer.
3. The Sacromonte Abbey. The third of the monasteries is on the Sacromonte hill, with its own entry and hours: see Sacromonte.

The order that works: the Cartuja in the morning on any day except Saturday, when it closes at 12:15, and San Jerónimo before its 13:00 break or after 15:00. What to skip: nothing; the Cartuja is the one for the sacristy and San Jerónimo for the Great Captain’s chapel.

The cloister of San Jerónimo. Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Practical information

• Where: the Cartuja is on the Paseo de Cartuja, and San Jerónimo is at Calle Rector López Argüeta 9.
• Rules: silence and decorous dress, heads uncovered, no food or drink, no smoking, no pets except guide dogs. Visits stop during services.
• Accessibility: San Jerónimo and the Abbey are accessible with limitations; the Abbey’s caves are not wheelchair-accessible.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: the lunch break, 13:00 to 15:00 at San Jerónimo in winter and 12:15 to 15:00 at the Cartuja on a Saturday.

The Cathedral and Royal Chapel are the other paid churches in the centre. The Granada Card includes the monasteries, what to book before you go to Granada has the closed days for every sight, and 3 days in Granada fits them into a plan. Things to do in Granada lists them with the other sights. For a bed, see where to stay in Granada.