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Alhori the castle of Montilla (s. XVI-XVIII)

Barns built in 1728 and other remains of the castle of the Lords of Aguilar and marquises of Priego. In the Great Captain was born and was demolished in 1508 by order of King Ferdinand in retaliation. Future Wine Theme Museum, Iberian sites (eighth century BC)

San Sebastian Church

Old Chapel is the oldest temple in Montilla and rose on the site of a former Visigothic chapel and later mosque. It contains interesting images, like a Virgin of Consolation Cueto sisters, or Cueta, Montillana sculptors, and another of the same title that appeared in the tradition of pottery in a kiln, and that Isabella gave her skirt as it passes by the people in 1491.

San Francisco Solano Church

Artistic Monument National. Its construction was attributed to Melchior Aguirre, began in 1681 on the site of the birthplace of its owner, patron of Montilla. In 1726, the year of his canonization, the church expanded. Retablos style baroque. Picture of San Francisco Solano, brought from Granada in 1689. Chapel of Our Lady of the Dawn, patron of Montilla. Important images like the Virgin of Solitude and Medinaceli or Rescatao Christ.

Santico Hermitage

According to tradition, the chapel was erected in the same place as San Francisco Solano stopped to rest when he went to the garden of Mines to take food to his father, Matthew Sanchez Solano. There, the Holy used to distribute food among the poor. It was built by the guild of shoemakers and tanners.

Casa de las Aguas

Cloistered courtyard and facade on three floors. It houses the Museum Garnelo (the largest collection of paintings by Jose Garnelo and Alda) and Manuel Ruiz Luque Library Foundation (over 30,000 volumes and one of the largest collections of local histories of Spain).

Ermita de la Rosa

Highlights include the altarpiece rococo polychrome wood and the Christ of the Column of the Sevillian sculptor Juan de Mesa, the Younger, in 1601.

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