78 GRANADA 



By the door next to the Capilla de San Miguel 

 we pass into the Sagrario (sacristy) occupying 

 the site of the old mosque, which it replaced in 

 1 705 . It was designed by Don Francisco Hurtado 

 and Jose de Bada, and it is well that the responsi- 

 bility for so meretricious a piece of architecture 

 should be divided. It may be dismissed as 

 Churrigueresque. It is not, fortunately, devoid 

 of interest. In one of the chapels is buried 

 ' the magnificent cavalier, Fernando del Pulgar, 

 Lord of El Salar," as the inscription records. 

 This valiant knight and true, during the last 

 campaign against Granada, rode into the city 

 with fifteen horsemen, and set a lighted taper 

 on the floor of the mosque, and, as others say, 

 nailed a paper bearing the Ave Maria on the door. 

 This exploit earned for him and his descendants 

 the extremely valuable privilege of wearing their 

 hats in the Cathedral. De Pulgar's bones have 

 fared better than those of the good Archbishop 

 de Talavera, which were scattered when the old 

 mosque was demolished. The Sagrario possesses 

 several good paintings, including a San Jose 

 by Cano, of whose works the Cathedral buildings, 

 as may have been noticed, contain a fine selection. 

 By the door next to the Capilla de Pulgar, and a 

 darkish passage, the Chapel Royal may be entered. 

 The oldest purely Christian building in Granada 

 is the convent and chapel of San Jeronimo, a 



