Baeza

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.

Lienzo de Muralla

These are the remains of the Moorish wall, rebuilt in the sixteenth century. In 1476, Queen Isabel la Católica ordered the demolition of walls, towers and doors. located in Calle Obispo Narváez.

Primera Fundación Universitaria

This house belonged to the Acuña family until it was seized by Emperor Carlos V for having been a meeting place for community members. From 1595 to 1814, the building was used as a teaching centre. Later it was used as a private house until 1992, when it was acquired by the Town Hall.

Palacio de los Sánchez de Valenzuela

The Sánchez Valenzuela family commissioned the construction of this palace at the end of the fifteenth century. Years later, they ceded the palace to the religious order of the Mínimos de San Francisco de Paula. After the disentailment of Mendizábal, it became the city’s Casino.

Deposito de Caballos

Above the door we find a shield, the text of which translates to “Deposit for stallion horses”. The building originally housed various stallions available for the stud season. Today it is the Multiple Use Enclosure, which was inaugurated in March 2013.

Palacio Rubin Ceballos

This palace, built in 1804 by José Cayetano Rubín de Ceballos, was owned by the family until 1973, the year in which it became the property of Opus Dei for Christian formation and a spiritual retreat house. The interior has been enlarged by the acquisition of adjoining buildings. It has a central patio and a recently built chapel.

Plaza de Toros

The city’s bullring was built in 1892 with a capacity for 7,500 people, paid for by Cristóbal Acuña Solís. For its construction, materials from other demolished buildings were used, such as the convents of La Victoria and San Francisco and the remains of the old square. It was inaugurated on May 18, 1892, and a century later it was rehabilitated.

Palacio de Villa Real

This eighteenth-century construction was used as the residence of the Marquises of Villareal. It was acquired by the Junta de Andalucía in the 1980s, although it is now in a ruined, abandoned state.

Palacio de los Condes de Mejorada

Built in the sixteenth century as a private residence for the Counts of Mejorada, this palace was later divided and became the property of the Robles family. The heraldry of the Acuña family appears on the interior staircase. Over time it has undergone numerous transformations, the last of which took place in 1920-30 with the construction of an interior patio in the neo-Mudejar style.

Palacio de Jabalquinto

Building of the palace was commissioned by Juan Alfonso de Benavides, second cousin of Fernando el Católico, at the end of the fifteenth century. The façade is Elizabethan Gothic, and the entrance has up to 8 shields arranged in Flemish style. The patio is Renaissance, dating from the end of the sixteenth century, formed by double semicircular arches with marble columns.

Arco del Barbudo

The arch was an integral part of the former Puerta de Baeza and constituted one of the entrances to the walled enclosure. It is named in honour of Martin Yañez de la Barbuda, Master of Alcántara , who in 1394 left through it to fight against the Moors of Granada. In 1447, the Benavides family, including his relative the poet Jorge Manrique, whose daughter was married to a Bevanides, entered the enclosure through this door in order to expel the Carvajales family from the Alcazar./p>

Antiguo Hospital de San Antonio Abad

This building was founded in the early sixteenth century as a hospital. In 1791, by order of Pope Pius VI, the Order of San Antonio disappeared, incorporating its assets in Baeza, including the hospital, into those of La Concepción.

Antigua Universidad e Iglesia de San Juan Evangelista

This piece of civil architecture is a great representative of the city’s mannerism, carried out by order of the Administrator and Priest Pedro Fernandez de Córdoba on the site of the Franciscan Convento de San León , ceded in 1571. The works were completed in 1593, except for the façade and Capilla Mayor , which were completed in the seventeenth century.

Balcón del Concejo Consistoriales Bajas

Construction of the Royal Box was ordered in 1684 by the Corregidor Fernando Ladrón de Guevara, created by Juan Guerrero and Mateo de Molina, due to the importance that the Plaza del Mercado was acquiring as a place of commerce and leisure. The balcony was inaugurated in 1701, on the occasion of the wedding of Felipe V with Maria Gabriela de Saboya.

Arco de Villalar

The arch was erected by the Council of Baeza in 1522 to commemorate the victory of Emperor Charles V’s army over the Comuneros in the Battle of Villalar, which took place in 1521. Although some sectors of the Baeza nobility, led by the Benavides family, took the side of the Emperor’s opponents, their position was justified by their personal confrontations with the Carvajales family, which at that time controlled the Town Hall, than by open opposition to imperial politics.

Palacio de los Salcedo

The palace was built by Juan Rubio de Salcedo at the beginning of the sixteenth century in the Renaissance style with Gothic influences. It has preserved its original typology: the courtyard with galleries on three levels, semicircular arches and a flat upper gallery. Located on Calle San Pablo.

Puerta de Jaén

This gateway is one of the most important and best defended entrances to the medieval walled area. Isabel la Católica ordered its demolition in 1476. It was rebuilt in 1526 by Corregidor Álvaro de Lugo in commemoration of King Charles V of Spain (and from 1519 Holy Roman Emperor) ’s visit to Baeza after his wedding in Seville in 1526 and honeymoon at the Alhambra Palace in Granada.  

Puerta de Úbeda

Puerto de Ubeda is undoubtedly the best fortified gate of this walled city, it was the one that led to the road to Úbeda. It used have three arches reaching across to the old ‘Albarrana tower’ but today only one arch remains. The the Albarrana tower and the walls were ordered to be destroyed by Queen Isabella in 1476 to end the disputes of the local nobility.