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Aracena Castle

The Castle of Aracena was built in the XIII century in the Islamic period, on an old fortress Muslim. The walled area was split in two in its interior, with the Tower of Homage to defend the barrier that divided within. Around this stood the population giving rise to the current urban landscape. During the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, Aracena continued to grow from the Castle Hill to the valley, first as a dependent unappropriated land of Seville and later as Lordship under the jurisdiction of the Count-Duke of Olivares, in the seventeenth century, and later, the Count of Altamira, who was called Prince of Aracena.The fortress consists of citadel, with tower warden, cistern and walls flanked by towers and a fence line that housed inside the medieval houses.

Cave of Wonders

The Cave of Wonders is located in the town Spanish in Aracena, northeast of the province of Huelva, 89 km from Seville in southwestern Spain. It is located in the town center. Popular tradition narrates that its discoverer was a pastor, but the first historical reference to its existence dates from 1886. It was opened to the public in 1914, the first in Spain to do so. It is located on Calle Pozo de la Nieve of the town of Aracena, near the Plaza de San Pedro.

Priory Church

The Priory Church of Our Lady of Major Pain or del Castillo (Castillo and Church of Our Lady of Sorrows), in the town of Aracena is a Catholic church was declared a BIC to date of July 25, 1995.This church, the oldest and most emblematic of Aracena, is built on the mountain in the ruins of the castle, and its construction over the centuries prefaced XII to XV. In building dating from the fifteenth century style late Gothic influence is felt Mudejar and the Cathedral of Seville.

Parish of St. Mary of the Assumption

Temple of 1522 in Renaissance style with three naves, with contributions in one of the ships, Hernan Ruiz the Younger and interventions of Diego de Riano. It was built in the lower area of the town, resulting from growth in Aracena, given the difficulty of the neighborhood for the climb up the old church of the castle. Officially, the factory was not completed until 2008. There is also another group of religious buildings of style Moorish Andalusia such as the Convento de Santa Catalina Martyr, present convent of the Carmelite Sisters, which is sitting on an ancient synagogue and the small churches of San Pedro, San Roque, Santo Domingo, Dominican Friars old headquarters, St. Lucia and St. Jerome. In addition, two convents such as the now abandoned Convent of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, built in the seventeenth century being the only example of baroque architecture in Aracena and the Convento del Carmen, also from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries together with the former marked the departure from the town of Aracena Castle.

Civil Heritage

In the civilian field buildings stand as the Cabildo Viejo. Now become the center of socio-natural interpretation hosted the first city council. It is a quadrangular building that was erected as a granary in the fifteenth century and that cover looks XVI. Also noteworthy are a heterogeneous group of villages in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Casino de Arias Montano 1910, the City Hall, Aracenilla villas include the Plaza de Abastos and Cortijo de San Miguel in 1915 these three or the reception building of the Cave of Wonders, in 1923. Most of these buildings were built by Anibal Gonzalez, who also designed the Plaza of Spain in Seville.
Is the oldest bullring. Released in 1864 was made of masonry with lime mortar, bricks and stones.

Archaeological sites

The Cueva de la Mora is a small cavity located in the Serra Parralejo. It has been classified as habitat and burial site dating your occupation during the Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age II.Another site is known as the Cerro del Tambor for being located on the summit and slopes of the hill of the same name. It has documented the existence of a prehistoric settlement have not framed in a particular stage (probably bronze).
Finally, the archaeological zone of Castanet Reservoir is considered to be of cultural interest. It is found in a necropolis dating cists and habitat both in the second half of the II millennium BC C.. Also is a village in the Iron Age II, which has served for so-called archaeological argument Baeturia Celtic.

Museums

There is a Museum of Contemporary Sculpture. There is also a space that mimics the idea of public art museum in Madrid, with different works of art scattered outdoors various corners of the city. There is an interpretive center on the Iberian pig, popularly known as the Museum of Ham.

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