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Ayuntamiento

The original Torreblascopedro Town Hall, built in 1971, had an undoubtedly domestic style of architecture. However, this has since been demolished and is in the process of being rebuilt.

Ermita de San Ginés

The chapel is dedicated to the patron saint of the town and was preceded by an older sixteenth-century hermitage. Its construction was started in 1729, during the term of Bishop Rodrigo Marín Rubio, and the work was completed in 1736.

Iglesia de Santa María de la Estrella

This was the first Christian temple in the town, later reformed when it was ceded so that the Monasterio de las Carmelitas Descalzas could be built next to it.

Arco de la Alegría

A semicircular arch built between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Like all Sabiote gateways, this one also contains its niche, known as the Granada gateway.

Casa de las Manillas

A Renaissance-style building dating from 1550. Its exterior presents a severe façade of masonry stone with railings and handles of the time, in the centre of which is the main portal, a work from the second half of the sixteenth century.

Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro

The church was built on the site of a former, possibly Gothic, temple. The construction of the current church began around 1500, and it was rebuilt in the sixteenth century with a layout by Alonso Barba, a disciple of Vandelvira.

Ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia

The chapel was built between 1593 and 1634. It has a single rectangular nave, restored in the 1960s and covered with a half-barrel vault with lunettes and articulated with five niche chapels on each side.

Torres Oscuras

Don Pero Xil established a castle here in the thirteenth century, around which the town was built.

Paraje La Lambra

An ideal place to enjoy a day out in the country, with views of the Giribaile Reservoir, Giribaile Caves and Castle, as well as the town of Vilches.

Caracoles de Rus

Known as the ‘Snails of Rus’, these huts are made of dry stones extracted from plowing and situated on agricultural land. The huts were used by their owners as refuges, surveillance points or warehouses.

Hipogeo de la Veguilla

This structure dates from the same period as the Oratorio Rupestre de Valdecanales, but is more rustic and simple in style. It is one of the few examples of pre-Islamic Christian religious architecture in Andalusia.

Oratorio Rupestre de Valdecanales

This sixth- or seventh-century Visigothic Oratory is a monumental complex made up of three caves excavated from a layer of sandstone and protected with granite. It was discovered by Rafael Vañó Silvestre in 1968. The main cave has a monumental facade simulated by a porch in the form of blind arcades with classic horseshoe arches, all carved into the slope of the hill.

Auditorio José Manuel Campos “Chinelo”

This outdoor performance space was inaugurated in September 2016. It is composed of a semicircular concrete amphitheatre and a modernist structure on the stage imitating the Visigoth Oratory of Valdecanales.

Casa de Triana

This house represents the typical architecture of the nineteenth century, comprising two facades, basement, body and chamber. The main facade has a central door, four basement windows and two large windows with bars on each side.

Museo Fosforina

The Fosforina Museum is a private collection containing more than 3,000 pieces that document the history of ancient trades. The objective of this museum is to recover and maintain the traditions of local people

Ayuntamiento

The twentieth-century Town Hall has a classicist air, with a door flanked by pilasters, lintelled and fenced openings and, in the upper part, the municipality’s coat of arms.

Torreón Árabe

From the remains of an old castle-fortress from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, we find the Arabian watch tower.

Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

The church was constructed between 1565 and 1576. The building responds to the premises of the Vandelvira School, with a centralised plan, ribbed vaults and flat front which is accessed through a main arch.