Villatorres was born in 1975 from the merging of Villagordo, Torrequebradilla and the nucleus of Vados de Torralba. The landscape is dominated by cereal fields and olive groves. It has about 4,300 inhabitants.

Construction of the palace was ordered by Don Íñigo Fernández de Córdoba y Mendoza towards the middle of the seventeenth century. It was divided into two sections, a sunny upper terrace and a lower access section, which was made through large semicircular arches on simple pilasters that extend vertically to the upper floor.

Francisco Cerezo was a very prolific painter who kept a large collection of his works on his property towards the end of his life. It was at this time that the artist offered his entire collection to the town of Villargordo, on the express condition that a permanent exhibition of it be mounted.

Representative of post-war colonial architecture, this church was built in the 1950s according to a project by Víctor López Morales. Its plan is rectangular and its interior is spacious. The presbytery is characterized by white walls surrounding a large central mural, a figurative rendering of the annunciation of the Virgin.

History of Villatorres

Popular traditional festivals in Villatorres are Three Kings, San ANton, Carnival, Semana Santa and Romería de Cristo de la Salud.

The Villatorres tourist office is located in Plaza de la Constitución

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Bus Services - Villatorres

There is little data on the church as its archive was entirely lost during the Spanish Civil War, as well as most of its objects of worship, images and altarpieces.

The sixteenth/seventeenth-century chapel has an esplanade from which you can see the entire town, as well as neighbouring towns such as Baeza, Jabalquinto, Mancha Real, Mengíbar and the city of Jaén.

The church stands out as the most significant cultural asset in the urban area. It consists of a gabled nave covered with Arabic tiles,a slightly pronounced transept, as corresponds to its Latin cross-shaped plan, a dome that is covered in four waters on the outside and a belfry, which marks the maximum height of the temple.