Monastery of San Fancisco, now a Parador Hotel. Under the Nasrids, this was the site of a palace, with its own mirhab or prayer room.When the Catholic Monarchs were laying seige to Granada, Queen Isabella promised that, after the victory, she would build a shrine in the Alhambra to her beloved Saint Francis. The monastery was installed in the expropriated Moorish palace, and when the Monarchs died, over the following two decades, they were buried there,