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This landmark comprises a gateway, which once cut through the ancient Jewish quarter walls, and a street. The town’s main trading area once concentrated around this small spot, which later became a hospital. Some of the town’s historians hypothesize that this site became a house for foundlings, which is when it is believed to have taken on the name “El Niño Perdido” (the lost child). The town’s archaeological studies suggest that the passageway also served as a cemetery. Private houses and restaurants now currently occupy this area.

San Gil Abad parish church is located in the highest part of the town, on a typical Andalusian street, Calle San Antonio, in the San Gil neighbourhood, also known locally as Cerro del Alcázar. It is well suited to its setting, which exudes regional character and essence. Founded in the fifteenth century, in around the same time as Santiago church, San Gil is Écija’s oldest church (1479). Over the centuries, it has undergone several conversions and extensions, until almost the entire building was transformed into Baroque. The building’s general structure is preserved from the original construction: a rectangular floor plan with three naves, each with five sections, separated by pointed arches supported by pillars. The church was remodelled in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, when groin vaults replaced the naves’ primitive wooden roofs. Additional works were also executed at that time: the baptismal and animas chapels were built, the apse remodelled, and the sacristy erected. Between 1727 and 1730, a building of one single nave, consisting of five sections, was transversally erected.  The tower, located to the left of the portal on the west end, was built between 1777 and 1782 by Écijan master, Antonio Caballero, in line with […]

Tras Patatas Fritas San Nicasio se encuentra Rafael del Rosal. El suyo ha sido un camino de progreso y búsqueda de la excelencia. Rafael y su esposa María del Carmen comenzaron con una pequeña churrería. Hoy Patatas Fritas San Nicasio no solo está en los lineales de venta de las principales tiendas de productos delicatessen de España, sino también en los de China, Japón, Corea, Estados Unidos, Rusia, Australia o Brasil. Más que un snack, una auténtica delicatessen para consumidores cosmopolitas, que aprecian lo natural, valoran las tradiciones y cuidan su salud. Descubre un nuevo concepto de patatas fritas: más sabrosas, más sanas, más crujientes y más naturales.

The Casino is more than 160 years old and opens its doors to all visitors that wish to take a rest in its wonderful and curious halls. The Casino opened its doors to members in 1848. It later extended and a theatre was built at the back, which is now belongs to the town hall and is undergoing restoration. This building has a certain colonial air about it. It has a central, square patio with foundation columns, two floors and a gallery with metal railings surrounding it. It is covered by a skylight; the walls are tiled halfway up and there is a ventilator, which hangs in the centre of the patio, over a round table, transforming it into a lounge. The whole Casino is currently a lounge; a place to rest and take it easy, reminiscent of the 19th century casinos invented for people to hold parties and be recognised. There are dance halls, marble staircases, empty dining rooms, games and meeting rooms, a cafeteria that serves breakfast and tapas and a hall that opens out onto the plaza. Members are able to make reservations.  

The market was built on the site of the former Santa Catalina convent, a 16th century construction that was knocked down in 1844 after having been abandoned following  the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizabal of 1835. The new building was set in a Neoclassical style, designed by Ramón del Toro in 1842. The building is rectangular in shape, with four sides with porticoes and spaces for market stalls. It is closed with four wrought-iron gates, and was restored in recent years. In view of its decadence as a traditional market, there are plans to bring this trading space more in line with the trading philosophy of our ages, where multiples tapas bars and a oleoteca, a shop specilized in olive oil, are located.

The town’s oldest church is found in the picturesque Santa María la Mayor square, in the heart of the barrio del Cerro. The church was founded in the 17th century by the bishop of Cabra, Bacauda (prelate of Cabra, participant in the 8th Toledo Council), and offers us an usual piece. It is an altar stone (in the shape of a pilaster), which consecrates the church to Santa María on 30th May of the era 688 (650 AD) using Gothic characters. It is the oldest inscribed devotion to Mary in the diocese of Córdoba, and one of very few in Andalusia.  

The Sisters of the Holy Cross congregation has served in the convent since 1924. The convent consists of one single nave, a crossing and side chapels. Its construction dates back to the mid-seventeenth century, but it was completely rebuilt during the eighteenth century. The simple portal, which opens at the west end of the nave, belongs to the same period. Paintings that depict the Assumption, Saint Bonaventure, the Immaculate Conception, Saint Michael, Saint Benedict and the Jubilee of the Porziuncola are displayed on the main altarpiece. The title sculpture and the tabernacle are believed to date back to 1786.

Habla la tradición de un Calvario viejo situado cerca de la Tiñosa y del que apenas se tienen referencias documentales. Su existencia debió de ser anterior a 1593, pues este año ya había en la meseta que ocupa el actual un humilladero que servía a los mismos fines: era un lugar de devoción con cruz o imagen para que los peregrinos orasen antes de entrar a la población o al salir de ella. También se destinaba para rogativas y prácticas piadosas. Hasta éste llegaba la procesión que los nazarenos efectuaban el Viernes Santo, según se refleja en sus estatutos fundacionales. Se sabe que existían dos cruces primitivas y que en el siglo XVIII se colocaron otras que están bien documentadas. En 1707 se terminó de construir la ermita del Calvario con las limosnas de los fieles y la contribución de la Orden Tercera franciscana, que ya en el siglo XVII hacía la Vía Sacra por la calle de las Cruces (el Caminillo), encargándose de reparar aquellas que se encontraban derruidas o en mal estado. En 1708, el Municipio hizo donación de las tierras que circundaban la ermita. En 1938, la Hermandad hizo las gestiones necesarias para hacer las obras que […]

Like many other convents, this community of Clarist nuns is well known for making and selling artisan sweets and pastries. Opening hours for purchasing sweets and pastries: Monday – Saturday: 10:00 AM until 1:30 PM / 4:00 PM until 6:30 PM Sunday: 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM.Products are sold in the museum area in the afternoon.

El exconvento Franciscano alberga la muestra permanente de la Semana Santa de Puente Genil, promovida por la Agrupación de Cofradías, Hermandades y Corporaciones Bíblicas. La muestra alberga una simulación de vida de los cuarteles, con exposición de figura y cocinas típicas, así como una exposición de vídeos de la Semana Santa y su Cuaresma.  En el recinto se podrá ver un video documental de los momentos más significativos en la Semana Santa de Puente Genil;  encierros, salidas, momentos importantes para los costaleros, Diana al Patrón, Noche del Viernes Santo y las peculiaridades que hacen de la Semana Santa de Puente Genil algo único e irrepetible.