Una ruta cultural por la historia, las tradiciones, la gastronomía y la naturaleza de diez enclaves patrimoniales por el interior de Andalucía
This church is in front of the Paseo de los Álamos. It was built in the 18th century over a small 16th century chapel. The floor plan is ellipsoidal in shape with four rectangular spaces projecting from it, which correspond to the atrium, east end and side chapels. The perfection of its elliptical floor plan is its brick vault ceiling is outstanding. The façade is divided into three levels: the first with a very moulded semicircular arch portal flanked by Tuscan pilasters, the second with a niche framed by lonic columns and pinnacles, and the upper part crowned with a steeple decorated with ailerons and topped with pinnacles.
C/ Álamos, 8,Alcalá la Real
This is Puente Genil’s most significant monument, since it is linked to the town’s foundation. It is our most emblematic monument because it symbolises the union of two river banks in 1834, giving rise to the Puente Genil we know today. It was first constructed in 1561 and designed by the Cordoban architect Hernán Ruiz II. The bridge’s current construct is thanks to the renovation works carried out by the French engineer Leopoldo Lemoniez Renault in 1874.
puente-genil
The Roman amphitheatre dates back to the 1st century BC. Its excavations started in 1885 under the management of Fernández López and Jorge Bonsor. Part of the cavea or seating area are below the level of the Roman road (the ima and media cavea). According to calculations, there were a total of 30 tiers, which were excavated in the hill itself. This is the part that has been preserved, while the upper part, the summacavea, which was built, did not make it to our times. The different rooms needed for the shows would have been underground, i.e. the changing rooms, cages for the wild beasts, etc. The stands would have been covered in marble or some other noble material, and would have been decorated with a wealth of statues, as was normal for these buildings. The west façade had an entrance ramp, similar to those on each of the corners, which led to the exits or vomitoria. It is thought to have been used for shows with wild beasts or other artistic and cultural spectacles. Visits: opening hours and entrance fees
Av. Jorge Bonsor, 9,Carmona
A collection of 800 objects and pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. The idea for this collection was conceived from recovering objects, tools, customs and traditions associated with life in the country. However, due to restrictions of space, only a small selection is on display. The collection gives visitors the chance to travel back in time observing objects, tools or machinery that are no longer in use and which older visitors still hold in their memories. The collection is organised into four sections, displaying the types of crop traditional to this area: open land (irrigated or dryland), fertile land, olive groves and wineyards.
C/ Fernán Pérez, 9,puente-genil
Nuestra Señora de la Victoria church was founded in 1506 over the site of San Martín chapel, which originally belonged to the Minim Congregation. It was the fourth convent that the order founded in Spain. It has a Greek cross floor plan and has two carved marble Baroque portals, a vault covered in eighteenth-century yeseria, and a grand, three-sectioned, exposed brick tower, which appears to be connected to Málaga’s Baroque style. The early eighteenth-century main altarpiece exhibits a collection of paintings of the same period, which depict the Immaculate Conception, the Imposition of the Chasuble on Saint Ildefonsus, Saint Michael, Saint Joseph, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Blaise. The central niche features the mid-sixteenth century Jesus Christ of the Gonfalon sculpture; the Our Lady of the Victoria sculpture appears in the attic. The marquises of Peñaflor’s tombs can also be found inside the church. The brick tower was erected between 1754 and 1757. It differs from other Baroque towers in Écija, as the shaft is decorated. The Cristo de Confalón brotherhood has an agreement with the church to use it as its base and is committed to displaying its sculptures for worship.
C/ de la Victoria,Écija
The construction of this chapel was concluded in 1589, thanks to Juan Alvarez Esquire, who donated an orchard to the Dulce Nombre de Jesús brotherhood. The church has a single nave, covered by barrel vault with lunettes that come from a Tuscan cornice, which could be considered to be a vault impost, and not supported by piles or columns. There is a presbytery at the end of the nave, covered by a wooden coffered ceiling, which resembles mosaics given the painting technique employed. There is a small altarpiece on the main altar.
C/ La Huerta,puente-genil
This castle was originally Jewish and was renovated following the Christian reconquest. The Moral tower is quite remarkable. King Boabdil known as “El Chico”, was the last Nasrid King of Granada and was kept inside the tower during the first of the battles that he lost until he finally lost his kingdom. Medieval Subbética trail and legacy of Al-Andalus trail. 14th century. The museum takes visitors on a thematic route, through eleven rooms that reflect the transformation and idiosyncrasy of Lucena, marking its historical milestones.
Pasaje Cristo del Amor,Lucena
The ancient Abbey Palace was reconstructed in 1781 by the Abbot Esteban Lorenza de Mendoza y Gatica, given the state of ruin of the original palace within the Fortaleza de la Mota. The new building was the end result of the aggregation of several structures, brought together by the single façade. This building was used until 1851, when the Abbey of Alcalá la Real was abolished. After years of uncertain future, it became the abbey archive and the home of the Archpriest of the Ecclesiastical Territory. Currently, and after years of restoration, the Abbey Palace is the headquarters of the Municipal Museum. This new museum was created to display, preserve and promote archaeological, ethnological, anthropological, paleontological and scientific exhibits organised into different display areas using the latest technologies.Through innovative means, the museum allows visitors to become better acquainted with Alcalá la Real’s heritage and traces of its past. It gives visitors the chance to have an overview of the town’s peculiarities, places of interest and its surrounds. Exhibition spaces: The flour room (dedicated to flour mill traditions), geology, minerals and fossils, Paleolithic, Neolithic, Copper and Bronze, Iberian world, Roman world, medieval, etc.
C/ Carrera de las Mercedes, 31, alcala la real, jaen
Locals refer to the chapel as “the Jesús de Nazareno chapel”, which is part of the San Bartolomé Dominican convent. Bartolomé López de Marchena ordered and paid for its foundation in 1542 for the strengthening of the body and spirit. The chapel was built in the 17th century and important alterations were carried out in the second half of the 18th century. The portal’s design is a simple, lintel-based structure, which displays a frontispiece, flanked by pilasters and surmounted by a pediment that frames a tiled picture of the Nazarene. The portal provides access to a small church with a single rectangular nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes and supporting arches, which sit upon a dentilled cornice. The Jesus Christ the Nazarene sculpture corresponds to the Seville school’s classic style of the late 16th century.
Av. San Juan Bosco, 10,Utrera
This church is also known as Santa María la Mayor church, as it was the new site of the Fortaleza de la Mota’s abbey church, becoming the town’s main church following its desacralisation and destruction. The friars of the third Franciscan Order were accommodated in this church at the start of the 16th century, but this church’s constructive process was long and full of modifications, stretching out until the end of the 18th century. The Virgen de las Mercedes, the town’s patron, is found in this church.
Glorieta Compás de Consolación, alcala la real