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Palacio de los Zambrana - Linares

This sixteenth-century stone palace features a noble coats of arms and a Mannerist-style tower. The property is a large rectangular shape with an imposing backyard.

Plaza Nueva - Linares

This garden square is also known as Plaza de Alfonso XII. When the Town Hall decided to build it, mining and industrial development led to the establishment of the first British consulate in its vicinity, led by Thomas Sopwith

Palacio de los Orozco - Linares

The Palace was built by the Orozco family in the seventeenth century. It has a magnificent masonry façade, the highlight being its beautiful lintelled access door

Cripta de los Marqueses - Linares

At the express wish of Los Marqueses, in 1918, their mortal remains were transferred from Madrid to Linares, where they rest in this building.

Hospital San Juan de Dios - Linares

Dating from the seventeenth century, this building was the work of architect Eufrasio López Rojas. The paintings that decorate the main vault represent various scenes from the life of San Francisco de Asís

Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís - Linares

The church’s façade was completed in 1763. The artistic richness of this church is complemented by beautiful carvings of different brotherhoods of Holy Week in Linares. Located in Plaza San Francisco.

Palacio de Telecomunicaciones - Linares

What was once the cloister of the Convent of the Franciscan Brothers is today the Post and Telegraph building. Adapted to suit its new function, the classical façade has acquired modernist nuances such as two large lion heads, which perform the function of a mailbox. Inside, the beautiful stained glass windows are a highlight, surrounding the entire central patio.

Teatro Cervantes - Linares

The Cervantes de Linares Theatre has its origins in the San Ildefonso Theatre, built in 1864 by Ildefonso Sánchez y Cózar, in the expansion zone of the city. It was a rectangular building with a facade facing two parallel streets and a French theatre typology, with a horseshoe-shaped room and a spacious stage. It was reformed in 1930 to improve its safety and hygiene conditions, and in 1952 it became a cinema, closing its doors in the 1980s.

Bullring and Santa Margarita gardens - Linares

The initiative of Luis María Granados to provide the city with the bullfighting arena it deserved finally bore fruit between 1866 and 1867. The emblematic arena, with a capacity for 9,392 people.

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción - Guarromán

The church dates from the eighteenth century and was the first parish built in the Nuevas Poblaciones. Its simple facade is built in red sandstone and has a belfry with a colonial appearance. Inside, the carving of the Inmaculada Concepción made by the sculptor Jacinto Higueras.

Pósito de labradores - Guarromán

This building’s construction was completed in 1789. It represents the colonial typology of such buildings designed for the storage, regulation, production and distribution of grain and seed.

Palacio del Intendente - Guarromán

The Palace dates from 1807. It construction was ordered by the Mayor of the New Towns of Sierra Morena, Tomás González de Carvajal. The sundial located in one of its corners stands out, installed to tell the time to the stagecoaches that made their stop at the post house.

Plaza Nicolás Kerche - Guarromán

This square, located on the main street of Guarromán, bears its name in honour of the first child born in the town after its colonisation. The sculpture in the centre is dedicated to the settlers who arrived in 1767 and symbolises their dreams of achieving a better future in this land.

Fuente Taza - Guarromán

In 1887, the Mayor, Don Lucas Guillén carried out a project to bring water to Guarromán, commissioning public fountains. The most ornamental of the fountains in Guarromán was known as Fuente Taza, made of sandstone like all the important buildings in the town.

Monumento a los Mineros - Guarromán

This work by Javier Ruiz Abel is a tribute to those miners from Granada and Almería who, at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, came to work in the mines of the Linares-La Carolina district.

Fuente de las Generaciones - Guarromán

This contemporary work by the local sculptor, Javier Ruiz Abel, represents the seven generations of Guarromanenses, each one raising the next one above itself and all of them surrounded by the tree of life, a holm oak, the representative tree of the New Populations.

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción - Carboneros

The most significant building in Carboneros is its church, dedicated, like so many others from the same period, to the Inmaculada Concepción. It was built in the second half of the eighteenth century, presenting a great architectural package in the purest Neoclassical style.

Posito de Labradores y Diezimo - Carboneros

This whitewashed stonework building is also from the late eighteenth century. It has a predominantly horizontal structure, with a lintel door that marks the symmetry, which is accessed through double stairs, flanked by two rectangular windows. The floor plan is U-shaped and has a single consistent height.

Embalse de la Fernandina - Carboneros

The surroundings of the La Fernandina reservoir are located to the east of the urban area, very close to the village of El Acebuchar. This spot offers beautiful vistas of Mediterranean pasture forest, with abundant holm oaks, and constitutes an ideal place for the development of extensive cattle ranching.