Valdepeñas de Jaén, founded by Carlos I, shares with Mancha Real and Los Villares, being one of the paradigms of the Renaissance urbanism, inspired by the theories of the trattadist Vitrubio.

Its urban morphology had to adapt a reticular route to the irregular orography of the hill on which this municipality is based. The city centre was located in the most flat part with a large trapezoidal square where the most emblematic buildings are located.

• Parish Church of James the Apostle (s. XVI-XVII). Located on one of the corners of the square, it stands out both by height and volumetric, following the rules of Vitrubio that the most representative building must dominate the urban whole. Its cover, located not at the foot of the temple, but laterally to the square, opens with a simple half-point arch on which goes a second body with veneer intended to host the image of the saint holder. Built in the 16th century, in a Renaissance style, it is evident in the classicism and simplicity of its cover, in the proportionality of the tower and in the clarity and internal spatial amplitude.

• Sanctuary and Hermitage of the Christ of Chircales. The origin of this sanctuary goes back to the Middle Ages. Located in the Chircal area about 20 km. of the city centre. On the first Sunday of May there is a pilgrimage to this sanctuary.

• Mill Museum Alto de Santa Ana. It is a hydraulic flour mill of medieval origin. Restored in 2001, and in operation, it houses an ethnographic museum, of popular traditions and customs.

• Santa Ana Bridge. Of possible medieval origin, also called the Dehesa or the Hundidero. Built in stone toba armchairs of the town, it has a single arch, under which they cross the waters of the river Ranera, tributary of the Víboras.

Other monuments of interest are: the episcopal residence, reformed in the 17th century under the inspection of Eufrassio López de Rojas and converted into episcopal headquarters when the Augustino bishop Fray Diego Melo of Portugal took refuge until his death in Valdepeñas; the Hermitage of Our Lady of the Angustias of the Parrizoso (on the banks of the Quebrajano reservoir) and the Hermitage of San SebastiánIn the old Egido, it has an attached cemetery.

• 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.

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.

From its historical-artistic heritage, we highlight:

• Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist. In the first half of the 16th century the original temple was built, very small, and in the 18th century it was necessary to expand and reform it, but again in the 19th century some remodeling was necessary. In the Spanish Civil War, the parish was seized and dismantled, losing the small but interesting movable heritage. In general terms it retains its primitive typical provision of mannerist architecture. It consists of a single ship with small furnaces on its walls, a short cruise covered with a half-orange dome, a side chapel and chorus at the foot of the temple. The main facade is very simple. Contains a reduced but select collection of goldsmiths.

• Casa del Vizconde or Casa Grande, As the villariegos call it. It's the most remarkable building in town. A solarium house that follows the Spanish rural Renaissance models and the high Andalusia. The facades made in excellent shillery. On the main door the traditional signor balcony and crowning the façade the usual sun open in eight half-point arches, crowned by an elegant alley. The main courtyard organized by the building, the lordory staircase covered with a vault, and some wooden-carved meds and zapatas, are also preserved.

• City Hall House. They are built in the 18th century. The architectural lines are very simple and severe, based on the guidelines given to it by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. The building was opened in 1775 and has recently been rehabilitated by preserving its early 19th-century air.