Priego de Córdoba

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.

La Muestra de Arte Cofrade de la Soledad se ubica en la Iglesia de San Pedro,donde se encontraba la ermita dedicada a este santo. Su interior, donde aparecen las primeras yeserías barrocas de Priego, alberga imágenes titulares de varias cofradías del municipio, entre ellas, las imagenes titulares del Santo Entierro y Soledad Coronada. También puede verse una muestra del patrimonio litúrgico y cofrade de la Hermandad, junto a una reproducción de videos y fotografías de toda la Semana Santa prieguense.