• Cerro Miguelico. On the surface of an old oppídum and taking advantage of a cyclopeia wall (9th and X century), a plateau that would be the germ of the present town of Torredelcampo is consolidated. On its west side, a cyclopoeia wall and in the south-east is still preserved a Visigoda necropolis. On the east side is the hermitage of Santa Ana.

• Church of San Bartolomé. It responds to a medieval project, still visible in the sacristy and major altar. Most of its current configuration takes place in the 16th century, involving the architects, Francisco del Castillo "El Viejo" and Francisco Castillo "El Mozo." In its bell tower is located the shield belonging to the bishop of the Diocese of Jaén. Inside it houses the Christ of the Vera Cross (16th century).

• The municipality of Torredelcampo has an ancient architectural heritage, highlighting the following enclaves, which belong to the Archaeological route of the Torreones (bike route).

• Berrueco Castle. It is located next to an old road crossing (Jaén-Arjona-Martos) of high strategic value, as attested by the settlement of Cerro San Antón. The fortress is built on a rocky exit, structured in two spaces, of which the upper one is delimited by two circular towers and one of a square floor, all with internal dependencies.

• Torre de la Muña. Located at the top of a small ameseado, it is defined as a fortification under medieval (XIV-XV century), several wall canvases and a magnificent square-floor tower, built in masonry and structure in two rooms covered with pointed vaults.

• Tower of La Aldehuela. Square floor fortification, structured on two floors covered with pointed vault. The remains of a hydraulic system used for field irrigation can still be seen next to them.

• Forgotten Tower. It is located on an Ibero-Roman settlement and next to the road from Jaén to Arjona. It is believed to date from the second half of the 13th century. It was built in the Andalusian era and reformed after its conquest by the Spanish. It has a cylindrical shape, 8 m in diameter and has a height of about 7 m., with a door located several meters from the level of the ground. It has breathtaking panoramic views, oak and complaint sketches, fountains and venerations at every step, as well as a large number of animal species, which make the mountain saw a small ecological paradise.

The villa offers the physiognomy of past times, preserving its steep and silent streets. From its rich and varied heritage, we highlight:

• Castle.Of Mudejar origin, eternal vigil located in the highest of the village and surrounded by an old wall that still retains some turreons. The tower of tribute, which reaches 18.50 m in height and from which you can see impressive panoramic views of the Segura saw. Inside the castle we find: chapel, adarves, covered with wood and roofed in two waters, aljibe and Arab baths.
• Parish Church of Saint Mary of the Collado. It was built in the 16th century on the site of the old Romanesque temple. The Napoleonic troops set it on fire and would be restored between 1814 and 1817. Its only ship is rectangular and of vaulted roof. On the outside, his tower built with masonry. With a quadrangular plant, it has its first body with a flask and a second body covered with an octagonal pyramid on which a forged iron cross goes. He has accumulated a rich religious iconography during his history.
• City Hall. Other Renaissance paradigm, old house of the Society of Jesus. It opens with an arched arch of highlighted keys, to which they flank crate pilastras and dotal column. The second body is embellished by a curved balcony, a triangular fronton decorated with tacos and noble oval shields with plucked helmets.
• Imperial source. A monument that reflects the transition between the Gothic and the Renaissance. It is built in front of the church and dates from the year 1517. Presents a large fronton divided into three streets separated by Ionian columns. A large shield with the weapons of Carlos V. is displayed on the central street
• Casa de Jorge Manrique. The façade has a half-point arch decorated with vegetable motifs, flanked by crate pilasters and complemented by small Ionian columns. The nobility shield of arms of the Figueroa, the mother family of Jorge Manrique, was carved in stone.
• Church of the Jesuit. It is built in the last quarter of the 16th century. It has Renaissance decoration, with a half-point arch with reliefs of the apostles. This building has now been remodeled and turned into an event and exhibition room.
• Bull's Square. It is located on the outskirts of the village in the old courtyard of weapons and chivalry. It's one of the oldest and most curious, being quadrangular.
• Arab baths (hammam). Used not only for hygiene and toilet, but also as social assembly centres. They were used by both men and women, but at different times. They consist of three longitudinal ships, corresponding to thecold room, the most external,tempered and hot, the innermost. They were tied with double horseshoe arch and canyon vault with skylights. It is estimated to be built between the 11th and 12th centuries.
• Wraith and defense. Many sections of the local walls can still be observed. One of the best preserved is the water tower, It is called that because its mission was to protect a water spring that supplied the plateau. Other still preserved are: The Era tower, the School tower and the Snow well. The latter space was used to store water and snow during the winter period and then to use them through drains that existed at the bottom.
• Access doors. The way to access the Segura de la Sierra fortification was 4 doors: The New, the Gontar, the Catena and the Orcera.

• St. Helena Parish Church: It was erected in 1793 on an ancient medieval hermitage, which had been raised to commemorate the Christian victory in the battle of the Navas de Tolosa, which had these sites on stage and to guard the Cross to which the miracle was attributed. Built of redesigned and painted masonry, with a simple facade, of small dimensions. A staircase stands out the access door, composed of a half-point arch on imposts, flanked by Tuscan pillars that give way to an inlet finished with triangular fronton and two bones, one on each side. On the top of the first body, the pyramidal structure is raised to three levels, with pinacles at the ends and half-point holes for bells. Inside it is a single drawer ship, covered with a half-canyon vault and double lunetes on the sides. The presbyterium is opened with a spinal arch, covered with an arista vault and illuminated with two large bone-shaped windows. The header is presided over by the image of its patron saint, St. Helena, between dogrous columns that support an injunction and a curved fronton. It was remodeled in 2001.

• Iberian Shrine of the Collado de los Jardines: It is located in the heart of Sierra Morena Oriental, on the most important traditional road of communication between Alta Andalucía and the Plateau. For the Iberian shrines they chose places, usually caves, located next to springs and forests, where it was thought that the divinity lived and where the faithful went to worship, pray and deliver offerings to their divinities. These offerings were what we know as "exvotes," small statues, between eight and twenty cm, made of bronze, stone or mud. In Iberian Shrine of the Collado de los Jardines There have been many exvotes, most of them bronze, representing men and women offering, priests, warriors and objects. It is part of the whole town that was excavated on the hill adjacent to the castle, where a wall, a sacred enclosure and a cast of metal exvotes have appeared. We meet before one of the three great Iberian shrines of the peninsula.

• St. Helena's Urban Helmets:Given its geographical location, a forced passage between the plateau and Andalusia, has experienced many historical events. The Battle of the Navas de Tolosa in 1212 in which King Alfonso VIII of Castile defeated the Almohades. To commemorate this battle, a hermitage was erected in honor of the Empress St. Helena, who would later name this place and the new population, which King Charles III founded in 1767. In the colonizing urbanism of Sierra Morena, the most important element is the large rectangular square, from which they leave streets on each side and where are the important buildings, such as the Church, the City Hall and the posite of Diezmos and Labradores. The rest of the town is organized from the Plaza. The streets are dominated by axial perspectives, houses of the same height and proportions, reticular fabric and geometric structure. It only deviates from the neoclassical model on its perimeter, to adapt to the road. It has been declared Good for Cultural Interest.

• Rupestrian Paints: The province of Jaén has more than forty points with rock paintings, declared World Heritage Sitewithin the whole Mediterranean arc. Some of them are found in St. Helena with exceptional testimonies of schematic and seminaturalist paintings, located in coats of the area, including those of the Cave of the Cows of the Retamoso in the area of the bodies, Cave of the Holy, the Cave of the Schools and some more.

• Mining Heritage. The landscape of ancient mines and Mediterranean mountains of the former Minero District extends to eight municipalities: Linares, La Carolina, Bailén, Baños de la Encina, Vilches, Guarroman, Santa Elena and Carboneros. This mining activity has left in these municipalities an exceptional concentration of remains, unique vestiges in the world and representative of the industrial revolution in the 19th century.

In general the villa has an excellent state of conservation, so when walking through its streets it easily transports us to preterito times.

The views from the walls or from the viewpoints are truly spectacular. Among the most prominent monuments are:

• Sabiote Castle. It was built on 13th century, Although this hill must have been a fortified place in all previous civilizations. The ancient Muslim alcazar is placed on a small mound, where it rises its signage door preceded by a pits. The current appearance of strong walls and elegant and imposing bastion is due to the reconstruction in the 16th century, Mr Francisco de los Cobos, Secretary of Carlos V., The reform was carried out by Andrés de Vandelvira and is inspired by the Italian Renaissance fortifications. Unfortunately it was Flying by the Napoleonic troops, so internally there is only one outline of what was an outstanding work of art. It has an accused military character. Its great Renaissance facade of silery and quarry, as well as the large pentagonal towers, stands out. declared Good of Cultural Interest since 1931 and its walled enclosure Historical-Artistic Set in 1972..

• Parish Church of San Pedro. The perspective it offers is oversized for a parish temple. Reconstructed in the 16th century, with a drawing of Alonso Barba, disciple of Vandelvira. The North cover It's style. isabelin Gothicbut in the south, or Puerta del Sol, the protoplatereco. A large corner arch holds all the weight of the monument in that southern part. Your magnificent tower is striking.

• The wall. That until just over a century ago surrounded the villa in its entirety. They stand its two-thirds share, as well as two of the six doors, that of the Saints and that of Granada, plus the arch opened in the 19th century.

• Convent of Barefoot Carmelites. This convent recalls the presence in La Loma de San Juan de la Cruz. It was founded on 1584 by Francisco de los Cobos and his wife, Maria de Mendoza. With a Renaissance style, it has a beautiful cloister with half-point arches and dórica columns. This cloister was designed by Alonso de Vandelvira and Luna, "Architect Mayor de Sabiote," in 1586. The church, under the title of St. Mary, was built on an earlier Romanesque. Inside it is preserved the high chorus grille, the large wooden beam that holds it and at its extremes it is viscated with angels and the shield of the Order of Carmelites. It is believed that the cover of the temple is due to the great Alonso of Vandelvira. The City Council has now rehabilitated it as a House of Culture.

• Hermitage of San Ginés. Apart from the historical core, it is dedicated to the pattern of the villa. It was built in the 18th century. It has a half-point and triangular front cover.

• Barrio del Albaicín. Of the different neighborhoods that make up the urban town, this is the one that best preserves the taste of the past, that of the old neighborhood where the streets are of pebbles worn out by hundreds of years of traffic, of gone and coming, where each house has its own history.

Ibero site of White Crow

The pale tone of its rocks gives meaning to the name of this small hill located two and a half kilometres from the urban core of Porcra: White Crow.

Archeologically involved during the 1970s of the last century, the process of human use of the field is delimited in three moments.

First, during the tartesic period, there is a distinction between an inhumation necropolis dated around the 7th century BC. There are twenty-four individual graves and a double-chamber grave.

From a second epoch, around the 5th century BC, is the largest Iberian sculptural ensemble of the national territory. A thousand three hundred fragments among which are more than thirty sculptures. The warrior of double armor, symbol by anthonomasia of the Iberian world in general, stands out.

Finally, necropolis continued to be used for such purposes from the 5th century BC to the 1st century BC, changing the first rite of imhumation to the rite of incineration.

Roman Amphitheatre of Obulco

The Roman Amphitheatre of Obulco was one of the largest show buildings of the Roman Hispania, an example of the enormous magnitude of the ancient Ibolca-Obulco police. It was the largest of the cities of the Protohistoric and Roman Iberia in the time of Julius Caesar.

This amphitheater shows the imposing archaeological reality of Municipality Pontificensis Obulconensis in the 1st century BC, when it was raised about five hundred meters from the walls.

After the last great intervention of this colossal amphitheatre, its monumental remains, of more than one hectare of surface, have been managed to size and integrate in harmony with the existing neighborhood, allowing its visitors to walk through a large section of the southern façade with its imposing counterstrong of piled chairs in the Hellenistic style, see the doors and volitories, the outer access routes and the large falls of cyclopeia blocks, then be able to enter the cavies or steps, and come down from the wall of the podium to the space of the sand and carcerwhere to appreciate the dimensions and panorama that the old gladiators who fought in the seaweed or games.

Cisterna Romana de La Calderona

The Roman Cistera de La Calderona is a colossal underground hydraulic complex of the Pontifical Municipality of Obulco, intended to store water, which has been in use for more than two millennia and has arrived to this day in exceptional state of conservation.

It was accidentally rediscovered by one of the neighbors of the three contemporary houses that are available over it and intended for air-raid in the Spanish War of 1936. It was originally a large public water tank with several years of rainwater collection and three catchment wells.

The project has been completed by building a contemporary building of access through ramps to the complex and with the excavation of approximately 500 m ² of the large Roman neighborhood of the poniente, where part of a cross-sectional enlisted street have been exhumed, three houses organized around patios, a shop and a butcher-carnage, which allow to qualify this block of the neighborhood as a handicraft and commercial sector of the city.

Boabdil Tower

In an era of invasions and conquests, during the Middle Ages, two names express the same reality. The Muslim Bulkūna and the Christian Porcella live together and share the same territory.

On the remains of an Andalusian bulwark, which in turn was erected on Roman vestiges, the Castle of Porcra is fortified with new defenses to become a Christian alcazar.

Ten are the towers that make up the castle's walled enclosure and one of them, the last to be built, which is maintained until today. The New Tower was raised during the first half of the 15th century by the precept of the Calatravo gentleman Don Luis de Guzmán.

It is also called the Tower of Boabdil for what happened in 1483 when the last sultanate of the Nazarí Kingdom of Granada, Boabdil, was taken as a prisoner to that tower after being arrested in the Battle of Lucena.

The tower is octagonal base, is 28 meters high and has an ochavada shape. Its interior, of two floors and a terrace, will house the medieval rooms of the Archaeological Museum Municipal Obulco.

Church of Santa Ana

The first data that are held from the hermitage of Santa Ana are from the late 15th century although its exact origin is unknown, being able to be reassembled at the end of the 13th century.

Santa Ana is drawn like a hermitage of a ship, with several adjacent dependencies such as the house of the santera and some corrals. During the later centuries the whole is spread and consolidated until in the 19th century it is closed to worship. In the 20th century, the property is sold to the Juárez family for use as a bread oven.

The recent intervention carried out by the City of Porcra has involved the restoration and recovery of the original building. These works have brought to light important findings: unique pavements, numerous burial or wall paintings in the altar area.

Today, the ancient church of Santa Ana has become the Visitors' Reception Centre.

Royal meat stores

This is one of the most modest buildings, which was mentioned in the 15th century, next to the organization of the square: the carnage of the villa, the Church Mayor and the Cabildo.

The Royal Carniceries, called for the Crown's control over meat, supplied the population with beef and sheep for more than five hundred years, from the Middle Ages to the Second Republic.

From this moment on, the city's library is located in the building and, in addition, the work-bag functions are performed there, to be, before its restoration, the Comarcal Court.

In 2015 this space was opened after the rehabilitation and value that the City Council of Porcilla carried out, hosting, there, the municipal services of Historical Archives and Tourist Information Office.

There are some of the vestiges that can be seen inside the building. It is also worth the attention to stop and observe its inclinated facade witness to the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

The Royal Posite of Charles IV. City Council

In the square of Andalusia was built in the Enlightenment of the King Charles IV in 1798 the Royal Po'sito, that is, a public warehouse of grain for consumption and sowing. It is a functional building offacade of silleri ́ a with beautiful classic cover, which consistsof three ships, one main and two lateral, separated by stone arches on which the deck rests. The building is accessed after climbing a step, an element that allows to generate a lower level or ventilation gallery.

After the Civil War contest, the building was ruined and a major reform had to be made.Although the works were directed by Ramón Pajares Pardo, the project is due to the architect and National Architecture Prize José Luis Fernández del amo, the first project he signed.

The building currently houses the headquarters of the City of Porcra. The large "glass yard" is a bright space that acts as a distributor of the entire ground floor and also functions as a main public service room.

Galleries of the Royal Posite of Carlos IV. Municipal Archaeological Museum of Porcilla

This is abouta space located under the building of the Royal Posite, current City Hall.In its day were the ventilation galleries and prevented the moisture from reaching the grain store. In origin they had no direct access from the outside, only one registration trap. Over time, several entry doors were opened, allowing this place to take different uses, from construction materials storage to dungeon or hardware shop.

Following the major reform in 2017, the space was restored and opened to the public. During the intervention, archaeological remains of Roman and medieval times, now integrated into the journey, came to light. The vaults system used in its construction is particularly noteworthy.

In 2023, two museum rooms were incorporated into the whole, which greatly enrich the understanding of the past of Porcra: one dedicated to the world of the Turdulum and the other to the Roman period. Both offer a clear and accessible journey through the cultures that left a deep mark on the ancient Obulco.

Ntra Parish. Sra. de la Asunción

The Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Porcilla, concluded in the early 20th century thanks to a popular subscription, rises on the site of the ancient Church of Santa Maria la Mayor. The building, wide and bright, has a Neo-Byzantine style and is articulated in three ships covered with cross vaults. The sacristy, attached to the head, belongs to the temple of the 17th century and is connected to the rectoral house, which houses the residence of the parish priest, the archive, the office and the parish hall.

After the construction of the new temple, Julio Romero de Torres was commissioned to paint the vault of the apse, where the artist represented the Assumption of the Virgin, surrounded by a chorus of angels. The work was so impressed that he was asked for two new murals for the capels of the cruise. In one of them he made the Holy Supper, showing the apostles attentive to the moment when Jesus instituted the Eucharist. On the other, he represented The Holy Family in a serene sunset, with the Child Jesus in Mary's arms and the silent presence of St. Joseph. In addition, the temple retains five more works of the painter: an oil of St. John the Baptist in prayer and four canvases of the evangelists located in the pechines of the cruise.

House of the Stone

Summary of the millennial craftsmanship of the stone in Porcra. The bartender and marmolist Antonio Aguilera Ruedas (1896-1980) built it in the middle of the 20th century for 30 years with considerable personal effort and firm mastery.

Its extravagant and eclectic combination of solutions, techniques and decorations exalt the work of the stone. Their personal and unusual explanations that portray in an unusual way the complex parallel trajectory between building and author draw attention.

In August 2018 it was reopened following the reforms that the City Council of Porcilla made. After an important work of cleaning and restoring the stone a sophisticated lighting system is chosen to bring all the beauty to the craftsmanship of the stone. At the same time, an extensive set of ramps, built in marble concrete, gives access to a glass elevator, a unique dissonant element but that will allow access to the entire building.

Old Jail and Cabildo. Building built in the 16th century, considered a masterpiece of Spanish mannerism. It is currently the City Hall of the city.

In his spectacular main façade We can highlight the huge, dogrous columns with piled armchairs, the sculptures of Justice and Prudence, (both were beheaded), the great doors and their bronze aldabones and a great shield of the Austrians crowning the whole. It was declared a National Historical Monument in 1931. Below the City Hall, the Convent of the Trinitarian, work of the late 16th century, and on the same street, but in the opposite sense the Hospital of San Juan de Dios, of baroque bill of the 18th century. All this high part of the intramurous historical centre is of great quaint and from it you can enjoy beautiful panoramic.

• Santa Marta Parish Church. It rose in the 13th century, in the years following the taking of the city by Fernando III the Holy, on an Arab mosque. It is consecrated to the patron of the city and has the title of Real since 1617. Gothic Mudejar style. The Baptisterium, the Major Chapel, was later built and embellished with the slate-cross vaults and a large cover of the isabelin Gothic. In the 16th century the interior is expanded and remodeled, raising large columns of Tuscan order and building the original Bell Tower with three bodies.

• Pilar of the New Source. Ornamental source located in the Manuel Carrasco Municipal Park. It was built in the 16th century, reflecting the most new and outstanding aspects of the Manier architecture. The set stands out for its monumental beauty and austerity. It consists of an abrevadero pillar and a smaller one in which two lions make water pipes. In the center is the Austrian shield, and on the sides is the shield of Martos and that of Governor Aboz Enríquez.

• The hermitage of San Bartolomé. Located in the skirts of the Peña de Martos, dates from the 14th century and houses the venerated image of Mary Most Holy of the Victory, Queen and Lady of the Peña.

• Roman Bridge of Martos. Important engineering work, built in the Roman era on the Salado stream in the vicinity of Martos to facilitate the passage between the two shores.

• Sanctuary of Mary Most Holy of the Villa. Temple in which Mary Most Holy of the Villa, known as "La Labradora," is sold. It was built on dates near the delivery of Martos to the Kingdom of Castilla. In the 16th century the temple was remodeled and a bell tower was built. This sanctuary was burned and destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. The current was rebuilt in the 1940s of the last century, in a Neobaroque style. The Torre-Campanario dates from the 16th century, is separated from the main building and is the only original element of the ancient Sanctuary. It has a square floor with half-point arches.
  

• The ruins of Castillo de la Peña which we know today are not those built by Muslims but correspond to the strength that the Calatravos built from 1340. The floor of the castle is trapezoidal adapted to the surface of the plateau on which it sits and its entrance, for security reasons, marked a zigzag drawing. The compound was divided into alcázar and a courtyard of weapons protected by a walled enclosure. The alcázar, where the tower of tribute is raised, takes advantage of a natural podium that lifts it about three meters above the courtyard of weapons, separated by a wide, also natural.
  

• Castle of the Villa. It was an alcazaba or citadel surrounded by canvases of almenada wall, as well as passageways and towers, leaving the central space for the construction of administrative and religious buildings: church of Santa Catalina, headquarters of the governorate, cavalries, tahonas, lagores, aljibes, etc. According to evidence from an inspection carried out by the Visitors of the Order of Calatrava in the 16th century in order to repair the deficiencies of the Lower Fortress.

Of the ancient artisan trades in Lopera, only two activities related to the ebanistía have been maintained to this day: the silery and the tortería. In both cases work is done following a classic Spanish line, of Renaissance air and close to the furniture that characterized Granada in the first half of the 20th century. Among the different wood used are those of beech and chestnut.

Other craft works, carried out today only by hobby, are reluctant to disappear. This is the case of the "guarines," made with olive pods, which were used to transport water pitchers or agricultural utensils to the loins of the beasts; or the anea works, especially those made for the "asses" of the traditional chairs.

In the Plaza Mayor of Lopera we find the three factual powers: the military power, represented by the castle-fortress of the Order of Calatrava; the religious power, represented by the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the civil power, represented by the City Council.

• The Castle of Lopera. The castle is located in the centre of this town. It was built by the Order of Calatrava, to whom this population was given after its conquest in 1242. It has irregular pentagonal plant, defending its corners with cylindrical and prismatic towers or cubes. The interior of the fortress has a large courtyard of weapons, with a magnificent almost rectangular alcazar in the center formed by two towers joined by two wall canvases that form a large aspired adarve, supported by half-point arches on counterstrengths. The tower of San Miguel, which controls the main door, houses two vaulted rooms, one of which later became a curious palomar as witnessed by the dozens of ceramic cubes that cover its walls. The tower of Santa María is rectangular, with two overlapping rooms. The one on the ground floor was completely remodeled in 1535 after the works undertaken by the Comandador D. Juan Pacheco for the construction of an oratory, a small chapel that completed the significant transformation carried out in the castle to make it a nobility residence. These works also affected the skate between the two towers, transformed into the palace yard. The Lopera Castle belongs to the promotional database and has complete information sheet.
• The tower of Santa Maria or of the Tribute, keeps in its interior remains of a Gothic chapel, made in the 16th century, when the castle became a nobility residence. We can now enjoy a centre of interpretation dedicated to the Order of Calatrava.
• Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The date of its construction is not exactly known, some historians place the beginning of its construction at the beginning of the 14th century. There is a clear succession of styles ranging from the Gothic, the Order of Calatrava, to the Baroque. The basic plant is divided in three ships, highlighting the centre as being wider and higher than the sides. These ships are separated by cylindrical pillars that support the vaults of the deck, warheads and multiple nerves. The altarpiece It's neoclassical. On its outside stands the tower with a square base on which rests an octagonal body and a circular third, with four moons and half-point arches for the bells. Finishing with a pointed polygonal needle chapitel with glazed tile.
• Casa de la Tercia. It was the old posite that is currently called "Casa de la Tercia." The building that was to be built in the 16th century is made of brick in its thick interior and thick tapial in its external walls, with quarry stones that reinforce the corners of the building. It has no decorative elements except two crosses at the top of the deck horse. It was used to store grain in the Modern Age and as a winery in the Contemporary. Don Miguel de Cervantes passed by in order to raise funds for the Invincible Navy.
• The hermitage. It has several and very interesting hermitage, among which we highlight: The Hermitage of the Christ of the Humiliaderoof the 18th century and of Baroque style; the Hermitage of San Roqueof the 16th century, also baroque; Hermitage of Jesus Nazarene, where the 18th century cover is again baroque.

Linares has a varied set of buildings (churches, palaces, solariegal houses) of different styles and times, from the simplicity of the Romanesque to the preciosism of the modernist buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries linked to their past of mining splendor.

The Basilica of Santa Maria la Mayorbuilt during the 13th to 15th centuries, with a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance styles, it has a beautiful silver altarpiece.

The city of Cástulo It has a historical trajectory of more than 4000 years, a history in which the presence and influences of Mediterranean cultures have been reflected, which have left their mark on the site and its territory. Cástulo offers us a heritage that we gradually recover from archaeological research, a legacy that we must know and protect.

The city has also not wanted to forget what its past was, good proof of it are the museums we found in it: Archaeological Museumin which the remains of previous civilizations that occupied these lands are preserved, and the Centre for the Interpretation of the Mining Landscapewhere we find samples of the mining works, pieces and videos on the location of the mining heritage in the region. And with the statue of the Miner, the inhabitants want to pay tribute to the generations who laid the foundations of the city that today is Linares.

The Casa - Museum of Andrés Segoviaor Raphael MuseumWe are reminded of illustrious people who took the name of Linares all over the world.

• La Iruela Castle. The imposing castle rises on an abrupt rock and at its feet a medieval district of unquestionable architectural value is spread. It is of mothade origin and is built on pre-Berber foundations. In the eighth century, La Iruela was occupied by Muslims, who in order to cultivate the land created alqueras, then walls to defend themselves from the enemies and, already in the twelfth century, the first fortress of the three that it currently presents. The second, also the work of the Almohades, was a courtyard of weapons surrounded by a series of defensive torreons united with each other by thick wall canvas. Inside the courtyard of arms are the remains of a large aljibe. When Fernando III conquers this area, Christians reform the castle and build the tower of tribute in the highest part of the rock. An auditorium with artistic and cultural activities has been created between the castle and the rock. It was declared a Historical Monument in 1985.

• Ruins of the church of Saint Sunday. 16th century Renaissance Church, raised inside the walled castle enclosure. The church was composed of three ships, the largest central and where the presbytery was to be found, the sides had chapels. A building attached to the church would be the old tower-door of Muslim origin that would give entrance to the interior of the Almohad fortress and that Christians reused as a bell tower. During the French invasion, La Iruela suffered attacks and fires, in one of them (1810) the building was severely damaged. Some of its noble areas are still standing today.

• Consistory house. It is a Mudejar-style monument that in its day was posited and grain storage. It dates back to the late 15th century. He was looted and burned in the War of Independence. In the mid-19th century it was set up as the municipality of La Iruela. A remodeling made at the end of the last century gave him the present look.

The most important monuments of La Guardia are:

• Castle of the Jaén Guard. It is a fortress of considerable dimensions, settled on Iberian vestiges. Most of its defensive structure was built in the period of Al-Ándalus, with subsequent remodeling, mainly of the alcázar to serve as a church or palaciega residence in the 15th and 16th centuries. From the Tower of Tribute a stunning panoramic that shows us Sierra Magina, Sierra Morena and the fields of La Loma.

• Old convent of Santo Domingo. The church is the best preserved building of the Old Convent of Santo Domingo de La Guardia, the rest being in advanced state of ruin or hidden by the reforms of the last century when it is occupied by an almazara. After the deamortization and abandonment of the church of Santa Maria on the grounds of the castle, the church of the convent was converted into Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption.Decoratively, the temple is of a pure classicist style, typical of the Vandelvira of the second half of the 16th century, hired in 1542 by the Dominicans for its project and execution. With a one-ship Latin cross plant, respecting the patterns of the Dominican order, it stands out its header, in which the date of 1556 is recorded. A Renaissance work of great beauty that has been declared Artistic Historical Monument, protected as Good of Cultural Interest in 1975.

• Public laundry of the Second Republic. A place with a special charm, in which it still seems to be impregnated by the atmosphere that the people occupied in daily hygiene created every day. The utensils they used and which have been donated by the neighbors can still be seen in it. On the first floor is the Fountain Lavadero Museum.

• Set Plaza Isabel II. It's another major enclave in La Guardia. The historical set was built to illustrate the greatness of the Marquise granted by King Philip II in 1556 to the first Marquis of La Guardia, Gonzalo Messia Carrillo de Fonseca.

The square concentrates several monuments concerning the 16th century and the Renaissance:

• The Source of the five years, they are bronze and they used the water of a local spring.

• The Source of Mary Magdalena, a central fountain topped with a sedent virgin that belonged to the ancient convent of the Dominicans.

• Sole house of the Ochoa familywhich was built in 1813 and which seems to preside over the square.