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Mercardo de Abastos - Cadiz

The market is an important public building located in the heart of the old historic and traditional center of Cádiz. This remarkable and unique building was built in 1830.   Architecturally it belongs to the new aesthetic trend of Cadiz neoclassicism, which has been popular in the city since the last decades of the eighteenth century.

Arco de los Blanco - Cadiz

The arch is one of the entrances to Cadiz city centre districts; the Pópulo neighborhood. It was the first Puerta de Tierra in the city and was located next to the Castle of the Villa.

Arco de la Rosa - Cadiz

Arco do la Rosa is another one of the entrances to the old town, it was named after the small chapel dedicated to the Virgen de la Rosa that was built above the arch.

Baluarte de la Candelaría - Cadiz

This seventeenth century bastion is one of the many military fortifications that were created in the city of Cádiz facing the sea, and around the entire perimeter of the historic center. The Baluarte de la Candelaria is located at the Punta Candelaria the northern strategic point of the city that guards the entrance to Cadiz bay.

Castillo de San Sebastian - Cadiz

The castle is connected to the seafront promenade with a walkway that ensures it is accessible at high tide. The castle is located on an island off shore from the mainland city. This island has been the subject of continuous settlements since ancient times It’s a popular spot for photographers, couples, and anyone wanting a peaceful, atmospheric walk. If you're visiting Cádiz, it's one of those must-see moments that captures the unique charm of the city’s coastal beauty and historical legacy..

Ermita de Santa Ana - Villatorres

The sixteenth/seventeenth-century chapel has an esplanade from which you can see the entire town, as well as neighbouring towns such as Baeza, Jabalquinto, Mancha Real, Mengíbar and the city of Jaén.

Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula - Villatorres

The church stands out as the most significant cultural asset in the urban area. It consists of a gabled nave covered with Arabic tiles,a slightly pronounced transept, as corresponds to its Latin cross-shaped plan, a dome that is covered in four waters on the outside and a belfry, which marks the maximum height of the temple.

Palacio de los Fernández de Córdoba - Villatorres

Construction of the palace was ordered by Don Íñigo Fernández de Córdoba y Mendoza towards the middle of the seventeenth century. It was divided into two sections, a sunny upper terrace and a lower access section, which was made through large semicircular arches on simple pilasters that extend vertically to the upper floor.

MueseoCerezo Moreno - Villatorres

Francisco Cerezo was a very prolific painter who kept a large collection of his works on his property towards the end of his life. It was at this time that the artist offered his entire collection to the town of Villargordo, on the express condition that a permanent exhibition of it be mounted.

Iglesia de Vados de Torralba - Villatorres

Representative of post-war colonial architecture, this church was built in the 1950s according to a project by Víctor López Morales. Its plan is rectangular and its interior is spacious. The presbytery is characterized by white walls surrounding a large central mural, a figurative rendering of the annunciation of the Virgin.

Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Atocha - Villardompardo

The chapel is a small temple which, according to legend, was built on top of the hill where the Virgin appeared. The current image is a replica of the original, which was destroyed during the Civil War. Towards the eighteenth century, the chapel was built on the remains of a cemetery. During the War, around 1936, the image was attacked; a rope was tied around its neck and it was dragged through the street.

Ermita de San Gema - Villardompardo

The chapel was built in 1994 by Antonio Salazar Gay and Asunción Rísquez Pamos on the occasion of a promise of illness. The image of Santa Gema came from Gerona two years before the construction of the chapel; during that time the image remained in the couple’s house. Once completed, the chapel was inaugurated and blessed by the Priest who lived in the town at that time, Don Francisco Martínez Rojas. At present, the chapel is open on the fourteenth of each month,when it is visited by its devotees.

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Gracia - Villardompardo

The church is formed by a single nave decorated with a seventeenth-century coffered ceiling, currently hidden by half-barrel domes from the mid-twentieth century. The tower is dated between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, made in three parts; the first consisted of the baptistery crowned with a late Gothic vault;the second part was probably constructed towards the end of the seventeenth century (or early eighteenth); and the third part, dating from the nineteenth century, consisted of a belfry to crown the tower. Today, the tower is topped with a twentieth-century plasterwork dome, which references the Holy Land.

Castillo - Torredonjimeno

The castle dates from the thirteenth century and features an irregular quadrangular plan, 80m long and 50m wide, with angles reinforced by square and circular towers more than 11m high and 5mwide. Under the domain of the Order of Calatrava, improvements were made to the castle, consisting of the construction of a fortified moat, presenting a double walled circuit in the middle of the fifteenth century.

Puente de San Sebastián - Torredonjimeno

The San Sebastián bridge dates from the sixteenth century. It is contiguous on one side with the former Puerta de Martos and on the other with the pillar of the same name that rises over the bed of the salty stream. It responds to a Renaissance trace, made in stonework and with beautiful proportions. It is composed of a single semicircular eye framed by strong stirrups.

Palacio Municipal - Torredonjimeno

This building was originally commissioned as the Town Hall, to serve one of the most important nuclei of the Order of Calatrava.Its construction was sponsored by the Mayor,Don Andrés de Guevara Calatayud, began in the early seventeenth century and ended in 1642. The building is of great significance to the community, both a symbol of the splendor of Tosyrian history and a statement about architecture’s crucial civic and economic role. In 2007, it was declared anAsset of Cultural Interest.

La Fuente-Pilar de Martingordo - Torredonjimeno

This fountain is of medieval origin and was renovated in the eighteenth century. The façade is organized by means of four Doric-Tuscan pilasters, between which there are blind semicircular arches, topped by an entablature and decorated triangular pediment studs, on whose tympanum the Torredonjimeno shield appears in half relief and cartouches on each side, with legends alluding to its construction in 1721.

Iglesia de Santa María - Torredonjimeno

This church was built in the sixteenth century, taking advantage of the materials of the urban wall of the city. It was reformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has a Gothic architectural style. The original altarpiece dated from 1537 butwas largely destroyed in 1936;only the crown and curtains survived, and they have been perfectly integrated into the current altarpiece’s design, the work ofAmadeo Ruiz Olmos.