Location: North-west of the town centre, right on the Guadalimar river. Distance: 8 km. Means of access: By car and on foot. Access route: Leaving via the JA-4108 road, towards Torreblascopedro.

Characterised by a hollow or plain enclosed on all four sides, with a narrow outlet serving as an overflow for the stream known as Arroyo de Los Llanos, which crosses it from east to west on its way to the Arroyo Salado, into which it flows near La Alameda. Los Llanos is a fertile plain of around 50 hectares, surrounded by hills that shape a landscape with a hard-earned reputation for harshness. This spot tends to record the municipality's most extreme temperatures in both winter and summer, with frequent frosts in winter and extremely scorching heat on summer afternoons. These factors, combined with the moisture the soil retains, make it ideal for cereal farming but not very suitable for extensive olive cultivation. Inhospitable as it is, all that remains here are the ruins of the Cortijo de las Canteras, so named for having been built next to old quarries, and the heavily altered farmhouses of Cruz del Carrero and the nearby Corneta. Of two other farmhouses that once stood on the same plain, barely a shadowy trace of their threshing floors remains in what is now cultivated land. This depopulation has allowed birds of prey and steppe birds to take over the site, and it is not unusual to see Montagu's harriers, as well as owls, barn owls and others. From the surrounding hills, there are wonderful panoramic views over the whole area around Los Llanos, Los Llanos del Salado, Cerro Girón, La Hondonera, Matamujeres, as well as the entire surroundings of Higuera and even Porcuna and other spots in the Martos countryside.

The highest point in the municipality corresponds to the Haza de la Sierra geodesic marker (479 m), while the lowest point lies at around 350 m, in the bed of the Arroyo Salado, the main watercourse crossing the district from south to north. The remaining streams are of minor importance and have an intermittent flow, all of them tributaries of the Salado.

With extensively studied archaeological sites dating back to the 2nd millennium BC, which have made it possible to reconstruct the earliest history not only of this municipality, but of the whole Campiña Norte region of Jaén, since it later provided shelter and defence to successive cultures up to the Roman period. The Romans marked out its territory with towers — including those of Calvete and El Espino — and restructured its urban layout during the early Roman Empire, eventually being recognised as a city under Vespasian.

This spot is home to the spring that once supplied the whole town with drinking water. Location: In Toledillo. Distance: 2 km. Means of access: Car. Access route: Via a track leading directly from the town centre.

Home to one of the largest holm oak reserves in Andalusia, with close to 1,000 trees.

Location: North-east of the town, close by. Distance: 5 km. Means of access: By car, by bicycle or on foot. Access route: Directly from the town, leaving via the JV-2.334 towards Fuerte del Rey.

It was built in 1788, as shown by an inscribed stone on its front. It is built of both regular and irregular ashlar. It features a moulding in the form of a pediment, crowned by a stone cross. It has two spouts pouring water into inverted truncated-cone-shaped basins. The whole is decorated with a ceramic tile showing the Sacred Heart in the act of blessing.

The Salado de Arjona rises in the municipal district of Los Villares and flows through the Campiña region of Jaén in a roughly north–south direction over some 48 km, before flowing into the Guadalquivir river near the town of Marmolejo. The main towns within its basin are Martos and Lopera. It flows into the Guadalquivir within the municipal district of Marmolejo.

Since the mid-20th century, the Romería de San Isidro has been held at Fuente Palacios on 15 May, in which the patron saint of farmers is carried in procession from Higuera de Calatrava to his hermitage, where locals gather for lunch and spend a festive day featuring float and horse competitions.