Alcaudete

Alcaudete is situated at the foot of the Sierra Ahillos, in the district of Sierra Sur in the south-west corner of the province of Jaén. It’s just half an hour from the city of Jaén, less than an hour from Granada or Córdoba and two hours from Málaga and Seville.

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Tourist area : Sierra Sur y Campiña de Jaén
Distance to the capital (km) 48
Altitude above sea level (m) 676
Extension (Km 2 ) 238
No. of Inhabitants 11015
Demonym Alcaudetenses
Postal Code 23660

Tourist information

Plaza de Santa María, s/n (Junto Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor)
Tlf: 953 56 03 04 - 695 674 751 - 625 511 700
E-mail: info@actual-alcaudete.com

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In Alcaudete, there is history on every corner. The town spills out in the shape of a ring on the hillside, encircling its two most distinguished buildings: the Iglesia de Santa María (Church of Saint Mary) and the Castillo Calatravo (Castle Calatravo), from which you can see the surrounding countryside of olive groves and vegetables. The township contains three villages: La Bobadilla, Los Noguerones and El Sabariego, where the white houses stand out against the green of the olive trees.

The medieval town centre is full of important architectural heritage following a great expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries. This led to the construction of a large number of civil and religious buildings in very diverse styles which decorate and beautify the streets of this historic town.

From the fields around the Guadalquivir and the Sierras Subbéticas, the landscape is composed of steep slopes and meadows around the various rivers, giving rise to vegetable crops and a “sea” of olive trees. Within the town’s municipal area are the nature reserves of the lakes Laguna Honda and Laguna del Chinche, an important ecological site for the bird species that live there (stiff-tailed ducks, flamingos, mallards, western swamphens, etc).

The route “Vía Verde del Aceite” runs through the municipal area, and the town is also part of the Castles and Battlegrounds route of Sp ...

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Ayuntamiento de Alcaudete

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