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16th century by Gutiérrez
González who, as treasurer to
Pope Leo X, was endowed with
privi leges. A gilded iron screen
by Maestro Bartolomé de Jaén
is the highlight of the chapel.
The Real Monasterio de Santa
Clara was founded in the 13th
century and has a lovely cloister
dating from the late 16th century.
The forbidding exterior of the castle above La Calahorra Its church, which has a coffered
ceiling, contains a bamboo
/ Castillo de @ Jaén image of Christ made in Ecuador.
La Calahorra * 115,000. £ @ n Calle Maestra The Museo Provincial
La Calahorra, Granada. Tel 958 67 8, 953 31 32 81. ( Thu. _ Nuestra displays Roman mosaics
and sculptures, and Iberian,
70 98. @ Guadix. Open 10am–1pm, Señora de la Capilla (11 Jun), San Greek and Roman ceramics.
4–6pm Wed. & Lucas (18 Oct), Romería de Santa
Catalina (25 Nov). ∑ turjaen.org
Grim, immensely thick walls and + Castillo de Santa Catalina
stout, cylindrical corner towers The Moors called Jaén Geen – Ctra al Castillo. Tel 953 12 07 33. Open
protect the castle on a hill above meaning “way station of cara­ daily. Closed 1 Jan, 24, 25 & 31 Dec.
the village of La Calahorra. vans” – because of its strategic P Palacio Villardompardo
Rodrigo de Mendoza, son of site on the road beween Plaza Santa Luisa de Marillac.
Cardinal Mendoza, had the castle Andalucía and Castile. Their Tel 953 24 80 68. Open Tue–Sun.
built for his bride: the work was hilltop fortress was rebuilt as Closed public hols.
carried out between 1509 and the Castillo de Santa Catalina E Museo Provincial
1512 by Italian architects and after it was captured by King Paseo de la Estación 29. Tel 953 10
craftsmen. Inside is an ornate, Fernando III in 1246. Part of it 13 66. Open Tue–Sun. Closed 1 Jan,
arcaded Renaissance courtyard is now a parador (see p573). 1 May, 25 Dec.
over two floors with pillars and Andrés de Vandelvira, who was
a Carrara marble staircase. responsible for many of Úbeda’s
fine buildings (see pp500–501),
designed Jaén’s cathedral in
! Guadix the 16th century. Later additions
include two 17th­century towers
Granada. * 20,100. £ @
n Avenida de la Constitución 15–18, that now flank the west front.
958 66 28 04. ( Sat. _ Fiesta & Feria An old mansion, the Palacio
(31 Aug–5 Sep). ∑ guadix.es Villardompardo, houses a
museum of arts and crafts, and
The troglodyte quarter, with its also gives access to the Baños
2,000 caves, is the town’s most Árabes, the 11th­century baths
remarkable sight. The Centro of Ali, a Moorish chieftain. These
de Interpretación Cuevas de have horseshoe arches, ceilings
Guadix and Cueva Museo de with star­shaped windows and
Alfarería la Alcazaba show how two ceramic vats in which
people live underground. bathers once immer sed them­
The cathedral was begun selves. Tucked away in an alley
in 1594 and finished between is the Capilla de San Andrés, a Horseshoe arches supporting the dome
1701 and 1796. Relics of San Mudéjar chapel founded in the at the Baños Árabes, Jaén
Torcuato, who founded Spain’s
first Christian bishopric, are kept
in the cathedral museum.
Near the Moorish Alcazaba
is the fine Mudéjar­style Iglesia
de Santiago.
E Centro de Interpretación
Cuevas de Guadix
Plaza de Ermita Nueva s/n. Tel 958 66
55 69. Open Mon–Sat. &
E Cueva Museo de Alfarería
la Alcazaba
Calle San Miguel 57. Tel 958 66
47 67. Open daily. & Whitewashed cave dwellings in the troglodyte quarter of Guadix

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