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Palacete de la Hilandera - Alcalá la Real

Built by Manuel López Ramírez in the early twentieth century, this manor house preserves the constructive essence of the buildings of the time with stucco or tile plinths, ceilings with decorative paintings and a spiral staircase. It currently houses an exhibition of popular textile arts and is decorated with period furniture.

Pilar de los Alamos - Alcalá la Real

Pilar de los Alamos - Alcalá la Real

The fountain is a Renaissance work, dated 1552, as seen in the legend of the frieze. The façade shows a large relief in which two tenants hold and adorn the shield of the city, protected in turn by two fabulous hybrid winged animals, with the head of a lion, the body of a dragon and masks on the ends of the wings, which symbolise the guarding and defense of the city. Francisco Florentín took part in the construction.

Location

Located on Calle Alamós

Fortaleza de La Mota - Alcalá la Real

The castle dates back to 727, when the town was under Muslim rule, and was later expanded. It was badly damaged in the nineteenth century during battles against France, and it was abandoned thereafter. For over 150 years, the Fortress marked the frontier between the Kingdoms of Granada and Castile.

Palacio Abacial - Alcalá la Real

The rebuilding of the Abbatial Palace was ordered by the Abbot, Esteban Lorenzo Mendoza y Gatica, in 1781, who decided to build it in the expansion area of the city after leaving Castillo de la Mota in the upper part, endowing it with baroque and neoclassical elements

Iglesia de Santa Maria La Mayor - Alcalá la Real

Iglesia de Santa Maria La Mayor - Alcalá la Real

The church, also known as the Iglesia Abacial, is situated inside a high fortified enclosure, where in Islamic times there was a model Muslim medina with commercial and residential areas. After the re-conquest, King Alfonso XI ordered the razing of the mosque and the construction of a church on the site, dependent on the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Toledo and with a domain extending over a vast territory.

Ayuntamiento - Alcalá la Real

Construction of the Town Hall began in 1733. It is symmetrical with three elegant floors and a tower on each side. Inside, it preserves the banner and standard with which the city was reconquered.

Iglesia del Carmén - Cadiz

This church has its origins in the last years of the seventeenth century. Since 1680 there has been in the city a Convent to worship the Virgen del Carmen.

Iglesia de San Agustín - Cadiz

The church is part of the earlier Convent of San Agustín, of which only the old cloister is preserved, along with some rooms, and the chapel.

Iglesia de San José - Cadiz

The church was the first to be built outside the city walls, that is, in the part of the city that is outside the Puertas de Tierra and the traditional historical center of the city.

Iglesia de Santa Cruz - Cadiz

The church is situated on the site of the old Mosque of Muslim Cádiz, on the orders of King Alfonso X “El Sabio”, (the wise) after he re-conquered of the city around 1263.

Iglesia de Santo Domingo - Cadiz

Iglesia de Santo Domingo is an important church constructed the master builders, Martín Calafate and Bartolomé Ruiz in 1650.

Oratorio de la Santa Cueva - Cadiz

This Oratory (small chapel) is a unique architectural and artistic complex formed by two very different religious enclosures: an upper church and an underground chapel.

Alameda de Apodaca - Cadiz

The Alameda de Apodaca is a cobble stone seafront promenade along the part of the sea wall on the northern side of the city overlooking the bay and the town of El Puerto de Santa María, on the other side.

Casa del Almirante - Cadiz

The Casa del Almirante was built by Admiral Don Diego de Barrios, after whom it it is names. It was constructed around the last quarter of the seventeenth century, by reconstructing an earlier mansion. The property has a traditional local layout, the façade  is topped with two viewing towers which are considered to be the oldest preserved towers in the city.

Parque Genovés - Cadiz

The Parque Genovés is the quintessential garden of the historic city of Cadiz and the largest green space in the city. Located on adjacent to the northern seafront promenade (Paseo Mirador Santa Bárbara) next to the Parador de Turismo hotel. Its origin dates back to the end of the eighteenth century, throughout its history it has undergone various extensions and remodelling.

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.

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