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Afan de Rivera, 4, Ubeda, 23400, Spain
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Patio
Santa María de los Reales Alcázares
Iglesia de la Trinidad - carving over south door
Ubeda - Plaza del Primero De Mayo
Úbeda comes back to the 16th century one week of June per year to commemorate the best cultural times in the history of town. There are theater and dance plays, exhibitions, conferences, Renaissance music and food...
Úbeda vuelve al siglo XVI una de semana de junio al año para conmemorar los mejores momentos culturales en la historia de la ciudad. Hay representaciones de teatro y danza, exposiciones, conferencias, música y comida renacentista...
Palacio Vela de los Cobos - the handsome family seat of the Cobos family. The palace has an elegant loggia on the top floor and most unusual windows on the corner of the building. Ask at the tourist office for opening hours.
Not far away is the early 17th century Palacio de Conde Guadiana - another impressive building with corner windows - all very useful as the important families could then "keep an eye on one another".
The church of San Pedro is one of several ancient churches in the old city.
If you enlarge the picture of the sundial on a palace wall you can clearly see the date - 1604.
Tourist office: Palacio Marques de Contadero, C/Baja del Marques 4 (off Piazza del Ayuntamiento).
Tel: 953 75 08 97. Open Mon-Sat 8-3. Closed Sunday.
This wonderful palace was commissioned by Juan Vázquez de Molina, Francisco de los Cobos' nephew, both of them Chamber Secretaries of the King Philip II. It is a typical Renaissance palace, and it's by far the best one in town. It was a monastery, a palace and, currently, the Town Hall. It has two façades: the main one, at Vázquez de Molina Square, is Renaissance and the other one, at Ayuntamiento Square, is of classicism style..
Este magnífico palaciofue encargado por Juan Vázquez de Molina, sobrino de Francisco de los Cobos, ambos Secratarios de Cámara del rey Felipe II. Es un palacio típicamente renacentista y es el mejor de la ciudad con diferencia. Fue un monasterio, un palacio y, actualmente, el ayuntamiento. Tiene dos fachadas: la principal, en la plaza Vázquez de Molina, renacentista, y la otra, en la plaza del Ayuntamiento, clasicista.
Francisco de los Cobos, Chamber Secretary of the King Philip II, became a really powerful man. He commissioned the construction of a church devoted to the Savior of the World. This is the masterpiece of the Spanish Renaissance private religious architecture. The church has a original style, with a rounded tower (one of the few in Spain) and lots of sculptures either inside and outside, giving a irregular outline to the building.
Francisco de los Cobos, Secretario de Cámara del rey Felipe II devino un hombre muy poderoso. De esta manera encargó la construcción de una iglesia dedicada al Salvador del Mundo. Finalmente resultó ser la obra maestra de la arquitectura religiosa privada del renacimiento español. La iglesia tiene un estilo original, con una torre circular (una de las pocas en España) y muchas esculturas, tanto dentro como fuera, lo que le da un contorno irregular al conjunto.
Mass schedule - Horario de misas
Holidays - Festivos: 10:00
Saturdays - Vísperas: 19:00 (winter - invierno) / 20:00 (summer - verano)
Turn south from Plaza Santa Lucia and follow the Redonda de Miradores round the outside of the old city walls. You pass this row of small houses, built up against the walls, and then the view unfolds in front of you. Olive plantations cover the valley, whilst in the distance the hills of the Sierra de Cazorla, the Sierra del Toya and the Sierra de la Cruz rise up to over 2000 metres. Have a close look at the other photos, and you will see what is so special about the countyside around Ubeda.
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This tip is one of a sequence describing a walking tour around the heart of Ubeda. If you reached this tip from the Travel Guide and haven’t read the tour from the beginning please click on the link above to go to my Ubeda page.
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