Mancha Real

The rugged Sierra Mágina Natural Park covers 19,900ha of rocky, steep limestone terrain, with precipitous cliffs and high summits that are often snow-capped in winter. Evocatively named by the Moors as the mountain of the spirits, the Sierra has a fascinating history glimpsed in its prehistoric cave paintings and defensive architecture built by warring Christians and Muslims. In the 10th century it harboured Moorish rebel leaders and much later, bandits. Its remote corners also provided a refuge for bears, wolves and the pardel lynx.

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The main square is an important meeting place for the locals, equipped with shady trees and benches to rest and talk. Many of the town’s most important streets converge at this point, including its emblematic Calle Maestra.

This palatial seventeenth-century house is also known as Casa de Doña Paz, named after the woman who lived there under usufruct with her two daughters until her death.

The church is the most significant cultural asset of Mancha Real, and its design and construction is credited to numerous prestigious architects from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, such as Andrés de Vandelvir, Juan de Aranda, Eufrasio López de Rojas and Ventura Rodríguez.

This former convent, with foundations dating from 1586, is now a private home. Of the previous building, only a small part of the façade is preserved, a section of exterior wall that appears divided into three sections by pilasters.

The chapel dates from the eighteenth century. Its main façade has a bench running at the foot, and its interior is accessed through a semi circular arch of exposed brick topped by a small niche. The composition is crowned by a belfry with a hollow for a bell and adorned with an iron cross.

The park is a huge public space that runs partly parallel to Parque del Emigrante. It is very popular for its extensive facilities, shady trees, colourful fountain and benches, as well as spaces for outdoor activities and children’s games.

This castle can be found in the Auringi countryside, and existed when the Roman legions under Scipio seized Jaén and the Carthaginians were defeated in the Battle of Castulo.

Situated on a small hill,4m of the height of this quadrangular tower have been preserved. On the surface there are glazed ceramic elements, from the Medieval period, as well as some from the Roman era.

Conde de Argillo is the oil produced at Finca Arroyovil, in the foothills of the Sierra Mágina. From its springs come the waters used to irrigate its 8,000 centenary olive trees, which produce Extra Virgin olive oil of the Picual olive variety.

Nex Continental provide several bus daily from Granada and Jaén city (Bus Station) to Mancha Real and on to Úbeda (M3-103), Carzola (from Granada) (M3-60) and villarodrigo (M3-80).

Mancha Real Festivals

The first indications of human presence in Mancha Real date to the Paleolithic era, in the settlement of El Soguero. During the Neolithic era (fifth and fourth millennium BC) and in the Bronze Age (third millennium BC) there were abundant settlements in this area, including those of Piedras Gil, Cerro Moreno, Cerro Alcalá and Peñaflor.

Mancha Real is situated to the east of the capital of the province. It sits at the foothills of the Sierra Mágina, more precisely beneath the Peña del Águila. The town spreads across a landscape of smooth hills covered by vast and fertile olive groves, and has about 11,320 inhabitants.