The garden is centered around the ruins of the Santa Catalina convent, located between the Zadorra river and the Badaia Range, close to Trespuentes.

Neglect took over the premise and in the First Carlist War it was turned into a barracks for the troops of the pretender Carlos María Isidro de Borbón.

This marriage increased the power of the Iruña in Vitoria and in the provinces of Alava and established ties between the families, who were members of different political parties.

Fernando, bishop of Calahorra in the years 1403–1408, built the convent of the order of the Jerome monks of Santa Catalina of Badaya.

In 1413, Jerónimo de Quintana, prior of that monastery, sent a letter to the Pope Benedict XIII in order to request approval of its founding.

Finally, in the middle of the fifteenth century the income obtained by the friars was not enough to keep members of the small religious community and pay the expenses incurred in maintaining the infrastructure of the convent.