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Conoce el encanto de Priego de Córdoba. Su historia, monumentos, tradiciones, cultura, gastronomía, su gente...  Te enamorarás de Priego

 

 

· DE LA VILLA NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ADARVE BALCONY

 

 Original urban centre of present Priego, from medieval-muslim times. Irregular,  narrow and white streets, full with flowers in perfect armony gives us back the quiet environment from other days, hundreds of years back. It was declared Historical-Artistic Emplacement. Around it you will find the Adarve, natural balcony open to the Andalusian landscape.

 

 

· CASTLE

 

 The Arabic military fortress exhibits a tower called "Torre Del Homenaje" which is one of the best preserved tower in Europe.

 

· THE BAROQUE IN PRIEGO

 

 One of the jewels of the Spanish Baroque highlights: the Tabernacle of the Assumption, a National Monument since 1932. Its many churches with their rich baroque decoration inside and outside at the covers are also National Monuments.  

 

· THE REAL BUTCHER

 

Former municipal slaughterhouse and market (16th century). It presents a cover with mannerist style and, inside, a central courtyard with arches on columns and towers and corners with a beautiful spiral staircase.

 

 

· THE KING´S FOUNTAIN

 

 Beyond a doubt this fountain is one of the most emblematic constructions in Priego de Cordoba. With Neoclassical style, it is organised in three levels, streams and surrounded by 139 major water sources and diverse sculptures. Close, you will find also the Fountain of Health, formed by a large pediment of Mannerist style. They both were declared National Monuments.

 

· PRIEGO MUSEUM

 

- Historical Museum: Specialized in Archaeology. In here, pieces that mark the historical development of the society living Priego from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The exhibition area presents four rooms and the coloumned courtyard.

- Alcalá Zamora Museum-Home: Numerous photos, pictures and personal objects spread over the walls in the rooms of this house keep alive the memory of the president of the Second Spanish Republic from 1931 to 1936, just at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. In here we can find aspects of the life of this president either from his political life or from his private and familiar life. You can also find the Tourism Information Office in this house.

- Spanish Contemporary Landscape Museum: The Museum was opened with the purpose of showing various artistic trends in the recent practice of landscape painting. The work presented in this Museum has been separated into two trends: figurative and abstract art, thus underlining the different ways of viewing the landscape.

- Sidro Lozano Adolfo Museum : The Painter Adolfo Lozano Sidro, born in Priego, became one of the most popular illustrators of the first third of the 20th century. He acquired reputation since he published his work in the magazine "Blanco y Negro", and also a list of illustrations for the luxury edition from Juan Valera "Pepita Jimenez". In the Museum you can enjoy both the author´s work and the recreation of the spaces where he lived. 

 

 

 
 

 

Priego´s festivals bring us closer to old times feelings, preserving the vitality of a village that regards its traditions with wise eyes.

One of the maximum touristic interest events is Easter. Numerous Brotherhoods march in a procession filled with beauty and emotion. One of the most celebrated moments in Priego is Good Friday morning when Jesus arrives to the Calvary, led by an imposing mass of people who struggle to get a good location in the event. In the Mountain of the Calvary here in Priego, thousands of people receive the blessing rising over their heads the humble and symbolic hen-shaped bread called hornazo.

    


Spring festivals are held in May, with the festival of the Crosses and May Sundays, with raffles and colourful processions every weekend. One of the most beautiful festival is the conmemoration of the Corpus Christi. This procession crosses the Villa Neighbourhood, which obtaines the maximum splendor with flowers in whiteness. Some streets are covered withg beautiful carpets of flowers.

    


In the third Sunday in June the pilgrimage of the Virgin "De la Cabeza", which makes its way to the Sierra Cristina between songs and popular dances.

During the month of August you can see the International Festival of Music, Dramatic Art and Dance, which have been being scheduled since 1948.

 


Closing the festival calendar the busy Royal Festival is celebrated in the last days of August.  The fair is filled with colorful fair huts where you can dance day and night, no stop.

Among the traditions that survive in Priego you can find: The Brothers of the Aurora and the troubadours. The Brothers of the Aurora is a Brotherhood whose foundation dates back to the 16th century, and every saturday night they gather at streets and squares, singing popular songs of ancient flavour. The troubadours were poets who sung improvised and spontaneous verses, always with an astonishing imagination, irony and sense of humour. You´ll find them here!

 

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