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Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Cuadros

Local devotion to the Virgen de Cuadros can be traced back to the Relaciones de Felipe II of 1575, and the Sanctuary was established in 1615 to honour her in the form of a tower and mill. Its interior is rectangular with a single nave covered with a false plaster barrel vault, with false transverse arches that rest on architrave pilasters. Both the nave and the presbytery, which is accessed through a lowered main arch and is covered with a half-orange vault on pendentives, are ornamented with geometric motifs and plant themes. A choir was built at the beginning of the eighteenth century and has undergone various reforms and modifications. Located south of the town, off the JV-3222.

Aceites Viana

Aceites Viana is an oil mill owned by the Salcedo family, who also run the Casa Juanito de Baeza Restaurant. Founded in 1997, it is located in a privileged enclave of the Sierra Mágina Natural Park and is dedicated to the manufacture of high-quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil. The family obtain the oil from their own groves, and oversee the entire process, from harvest to manufacture, and marketing. The best technicians are employed to monitor pests and diseases and ensure that the olives are harvested at the optimal moment of maturation. Once the collection has been carried out, the olives are transported to the mill in the shortest possible time (7 hours maximum from the beginning of the harvest), and the manufacturing process (cleaning and cold grinding) must take place within 12 hours. Aceites Viana has the most advanced manufacturing systems, with a production capacity of 100,000 kg/24 hours, controlling the entire process in their own laboratory. Located on Camino de Jodar.

Centro de Interpretación del Aceite de Sierra Mágina

The Regulatory Council of the Denomination of Origin Aceites de Sierra Mágina has had its headquarters here since 2009, in a building with an avant-garde design, popularly known as the “Guggenheim” in Bedmar. The Interpretation Centre has an exhibition space titled “From Olive Grove to Plate”, where an educational tour explains the life cycle of olives, from cultivation, to the production of oils, to its use in gastronomy. Visitors can also enjoy guided tours of the groves and mills. Located on the A-320.

Castillo Nuevo

The construction of the “New Castle” was motivated by the looting of the Villa and its previous fortress, known as Castillo Viejo. When the King of Granada, Muhammad VII, attacked and conquered Bedmar in 1407, the castle was seized and much of the population was imprisoned or executed by the Nasrids. These events reinforced the urgency of defending this area of border more strongly, since Bedmar guarded one of the most valuable communication gates between the Christian territory and the Kingdom of Granada. The Order of Santiago built the Castillo Nuevo from 1411, at the highest point of the current town, about 685 meters above sea level. It consists of two areas, the enclosure and the fortress. Declared an Asset of Cultural Interest under the Monuments category since 1985. Located on Calle Trastorre.

Palacio del Marqués de Viana

The Palace of the Marqués de Viana is one of the great Renaissance-style civic buildings in the province of Jaén. Construction began in 1501 and was concluded by 1548, when Don Díaz Sánchez de Quesada was Lord of the town, married to Doña Inés de Tabera. Thought to be the work of Don Pedro de Vandelvira, the palace has a square plan with Ionic and Doric architectural elements. Its main doorway, framed in marble by two pilasters with Ionic capitals, has a corbel on its arch and is topped by a frieze that alternates triglyphs and bull heads, instead of the typical metopes of the classical Doric order. Declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 2006. Located on Calle San Marcos.

Outside the town

The Castillo de las Cinca Esquinas (Castle of the Five Corners) also known as the SalvaTierra Castle, can be seen from most areas of Cazorla. It was built in the last third of the 14th century on the remains of an old Arab fortification, probably by Archbishop Pedro Tenorio. It is a contemporary of the Torre del Homenaje del Castillo de la Yedra.

Things to see in Cazorla

The Iglesia de San Francisco (Church of St Francis) is one of the best known in Cazorla, built in the 17th century on a site previously occupied by an old Franciscan Order convent. The church has a rectangular plan with three naves laterally divided into three planes.

Manor Houses

Baeza has been a World Heritage Site since 2003 thanks to its exceptional heritage that has been preserved since the Renaissance. In addition to the University, there are many religious buildings and a series of manor houses.

Iglesia de San Francisco

In 1538, the construction of a new building dedicated to San Francisco was agreed. This work would have been one of the best examples of the Andalucian Renaissance but unfortunately it was never completed.

Iglesia de San Ignacio

This complex was part of a seminary, Seminario de la Compañía de Jesús, built at the beginning of the seventeenth century and finished in 1648. After the confiscation, the entire complex was demolished, with only the church itself saved.

Iglesia de los Trinitarios Descalzos

The first Friars settled in Baeza in 1607. In 1615, they were given permission to build on a new settlement that was completed in the eighteenth century. After the confiscation of Mendizábal, the convent was destroyed but the church was saved thanks to citizen collaboration.

Iglesia de San Andrés

This church dates from the beginning of the sixteenth century and held the title of Collegiate Church from 1764 to 1852. In the seventeenth century, the altarpiece was placed, in which the dressing room stands out where the Gothic carving of the Virgen del Alcázar, patron saint of the city, is located.

Iglesia de San Pablo

The church was built at the end of the fifteenth century and finished in 1665 by the architect Eufrasio López de Rojas. The original cover was replaced by the current one, in Baroque style. Inside are the remains of Pablo de Olavide.

Iglesia de San Juan

The church was erected on October 18, 1595, 26 years after the death of the Holy Doctor San Juan de Ávila, whose portrait hangs on the wall of the Epistle, inside the church. Work on this chapel was completed at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Torre de los Aliatares

Another important twelfth-century tower from the Muslim era. Its strategic position meant that it was purposed for controlling the barbican and the demolished Puerta del Cañuelo. It is also one of the few examples of the walled enclosure demolished by Isabel la Católica in 1476 that has remained.

Palacio de los Obispos

This palace was the bishopric residence from medieval times. It has undergone several modifications: the first at the beginning of the sixteenth century, at the time of Bishop Don Alonso Suarez de la Fuente del Sauce, the second in the mid-nineteenth century to be transformed into the Army Cavalry Barracks, and the third in 1910 by the State and Town Hall. I

Antigua Universidad

The University of Baeza was created by Dr. Rodrigo López, a native of Baeza, chaplain and relative of Pope Paul III from whom he obtained the founding bull in 1538. The structure of the building responds to the typical typology of Renaissance palaces. It maintained its functions as a university until 1824; later, it was a College of Humanities and State School, where Antonio Machado taught, until it became a Secondary Education Institute.

Mercado de Abastos

The covered market dates to the 1950s and is built in a historically eclectic style. It is the indoor covered market. Stalls sell fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, embutidos ( cured dry sausages), olive oil and olives.Open from 09.00 to 14.00 Monday to Saturday./p>

Antigua Prisión (Hospederia)

This historicist and eclectic style building was built between 1940 and 1950. Three years after its foundation, it was vacated and repurposed for various functions such as a prison, until 1994 when it was restored and opened to the public as the Fuentenueva Hostel.

Mirador de las Murallas

From this viewpoint are the best views of the River Guadalquivir Valley, nearby towns and the Sierra Magina mountins in the distance. The olive groves form a pattern as the equally spaced rows of trees wind accross the landscape. It has free parking and a wide pedestrian walk to the historic center of Baeza.Located on Calle San Pablo.