The Alcazaba of Loja was built to serve as a military and an adminisrative centre in medieval times. The most splendid period of this place...

Near Loja is an important archaeological site where people lived in prehistoric times. Archeologists have discovered the remains of a Megalithic settlement and several burial...

The Santuario de la Virgen de Gracia was once a nineth Century mosque. This area of the Sierra de Archidona became under Moorish rule in...

The lavish King`s Fountain is an elegant, early 19th Century Baroque fountain with three pools. There are 139 spouts gushing water into the ornamented ponds....

Priego de Cordoba is an interesting, market town which was famous for its silk production in the 18th Century, but its history goes much further...

The Iglesia de San Francisco is an interesting, Gothic church that was remodelled in the Baroque style in the 18th Century. Much of the work...

The Iglesia de La Aurora is a beautiful church built in the Baroque style. It has a small facade and a 15th Century slender bell...

Carnicerias Reales was the Royal Butchery. Dating from the 16th Century, it was designed by Francisco del Casillo. This is a well preserved building with...

Priego de Cordoba Castle is a restored Moorish fortress in the beautiful, medieval town quarter. It was remodelled in the 12th and 14th centuries and...

The Church of the Assumption is an outstanding 16th Century Gothic church that was remodeled in the 18th Century in the Baroque style. In the...

The Barrio de la Ville is the picturesque, medieval quarter with straight and winding lanes and white washed house adorned with cascades of flowering plants...

The Pena de los Gitanos is the location of an archaeological site that has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest. It is situated on...

The Church of La Encarnacion is a Neo-classical church of unusual design. It was built in the late 18th Century during the reign of Carlos...

The Menga and Viera dolmens are enormous Megalithic tombs dating from about 2500 to 2000 BC. The funerary chambers are formed of huge stone slabs...

The writer Federico Garcia Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueras near Granada in 1898. A farmer`s son, he studied in Granada, Madrid and New York....

Antequera Municipal Museum is housed in a 17th Century Renaissance palace and has some interesting archaeological displays. There are several good Roman mosaics. The most...

The Alcazaba is the remains of a Moorish fortress on a hill above Santa Maria Church. Hedged gardens rise up the hill to the remains...

The Convento de las Carmelitas Descalzas houses a museum with interesting works of art. One of the best is of St Theresa of Avila, the...

The Iglesia del Carmen has a splendid Mudejar artesonado ceiling but the most outstanding feature of the church is the huge Baroque altarpiece. The wooden...

Below the gardens of the Alcazaba is the La Colegiata de la Santa Maria la Mayor, the finest church in Antequera. This splendid building dates...