Route of the Seven Villas de los Pedroches

• Places to visit:

1. Plaza de las Siete Villas
2. Parish of the Savior
3. Renaissance tower
4. Hermitage Santa María del Castillo
5. Conventist Mother Convent
6. Virgen de Piedrasantas hermitage
7. Hermitage of San Sebastián
8. Hermitage of Santa Lucia
9. Caves
10. The Jewish quarter

TWO TOWERS
It was December 11, 1839 when General Espartero, regent of Queen Isabel II, decreed the merger into a single village (Dos Torres) of the medieval towns of Torremilano and Torrefranca, historically together, from the spatial point of view, although very different from the legal-administrative perspective.
Torrefranca was one of the villas that integrated the old Señorío de Santa Eufemia, while Torremilano was part of the Seven Villas of Los Pedroches, being therefore a town of realengo.
Torremilano was, with time, administrative head of the Seven Towns, being settled in her the first Real Corregidor of the Pedroches, D. Fco. Miguel Díaz de Mendoza.
The historic center of Dos Torres has conserved over the centuries the typology of traditional housing, which has led to its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Historic Site. To this is added the presence of interesting samples of religious architecture. It is thus possible to admire exceptional architectural elements for their authenticity and beauty, such as bridges, hermitages, churches or houses with artistic covers of remarkable lintels and heraldic shields that reflect the importance of the village in the past.

• Places to visit:

1. Plaza de la Villa
2. The arcades
3. Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
4. Hermitage of San Roque (Patron of the village)
5. Hermitage of Our Lady of Loreto (Patron of the Villa)
6. Santa Ana Bridge
7. Hermitage of San Bartolomé (S.XVI)
8. Shields and lintels

TORRECAMPO

The origin of Torrecampo dates back to medieval times, at which time the residents of Pedroche settled in these lands fleeing the plague that was ravaging their town. These, together with the inhabitants of Cerro de la Torre, would make up what is now the Villa. In 1484 it reached its independence and was part of the Seven Towns of Los Pedroches, being subject to the jurisdiction and dominion of Córdoba. Its period of greatest splendor was between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, when it began its inexorable decline because it was for a long time an obligatory passage from La Mancha, and after the collapse of the bridge over the Guadalmez this route was diverted, which Torrecampo was losing its importance. The surroundings of the town were formerly populated, proof of which are the multiple remains that have appeared throughout the area. Between the settlements they emphasize the Castle of Mogábar, that was a medieval fortress populated centuries back, and the hill of the Tower, where still they are possible to be observed rest of what was a watchtower. It is a town that during all its history, and even today, endures its dedication to agriculture and livestock, whose white and collected streets invite not to break the silence and to enter a peace that is unattainable in the feverish activity of the city.

• Places to visit:

1. Parish of San Sebastián
2. Posada del Moro House-Museum
3. Hermitage of Jesus Nazareno
4. The "Posito" exhibition hall
5. Hermitage Virgen de Gracia
6. Sanctuary of the Virgin of Veredas
7. Casino house

POZOBLANCO
Pozoblanco had its origin in the S. XIV. There is a belief that was the result of colonization to settle Jews sent from Cordoba after being released these lands of Muslims, although the tradition says that its origin took place to settle in that place a group of shepherds fleeing the pest unleashed in Pedroche . This settlement occurred where today is located the Pozo Viejo, authentic symbol of the city that gave its name to the current Pozoblanco.
In 1478 it stopped being village and obtained the title of town. It was one of the Seven Villas of Los Pedroches and a royal village except in the years that belonged, along with the rest of the seven, to the marquisate of El Carpio. Its growing prosperity immediately placed it as the capital of the Seven Villas of Los Pedroches and the northern area of ​​the kingdom of Córdoba, where the corregidor of the town moved. Its geographical position has turned Pozoblanco into an economic and administrative capital of the region, knowing how to maintain its flavor of a beautiful mountain town.
Celebrates with joy the Fiestas de la Virgen de Luna, its patron saint that it shares with the neighboring municipality of Villanueva de Córdoba, and the Ntra. Sra. De las Mercedes Fair in which its important bull evenings stand out. Thanks to the tradition that has managed to conserve, there are many festivals and popular festivals that are still held in Pozoblanco, such as San Antonio, San Bartolomé, María Auxiliadora or Pozo Viejo, without forgetting that of San Gregorio or San Isidro, in which the centuries-old tradition of burning dolls is maintained.

• Places to visit:

1. Bullring
2. City of leisure
3. Church of Santa Catalina
4. Plaza del Pozo Viejo
5. House of the Beam
6. Marcos Redondo Museum
7. Circle of Fine Arts
8. Church Hospital of Jesus Nazareno
9. Church of San Bartolomé
10. Parish of San Sebastián
11. Hermitage of San Gregorio
12. Hermitage of San Antonio
13. Hermitage of the Virgin of Luna
14. Monastery of Pedrique

VILLANUEVA DE CÓRDOBA
Villanueva de Córdoba had its origin between 1348 and 1360, but its territory was already densely populated in antiquity, in the times of the Chalcolithic and during the late Roman and Visigoth periods, proof of this is the large amount of archaeological remains that our legacy has left. historical becoming.
In 1553, Carlos V after the services provided by the inhabitants of this town, he granted the title of town, ending in this way the dependence he had maintained with respect to the parent town of Pedroche.
The town of Villanueva de Córdoba rises in the middle of a sea of ​​oaks that make up the largest forest in Europe, being the granite the building material par excellence for the most important civil and religious buildings of this town.
One of the most important population centers of the region, with a long tradition in the art of curing Iberian ham, celebrates with enthusiasm the Acorn Iberian Ham Fair and the pilgrimage of the Virgen de Luna.

• Places to visit:

1. Parish of San Miguel Arcángel
2. Former Audience
3. City Hall
4. Church of the Sweet Name
5. Parish of San Sebastián
6. Hospital Iglesia de Jesús Nazareno
7. Convent of Christ the King
8. Dehesa Interpretation Center.
9. Old wells and public laundries
10. Railway Station- Local Historical Museum

ALCARACEJOS

El Puerto del Calatraveño, emblem and emblem of the area, marks the natural entrance to the south of Los Pedroches. Singular landscapes offer the Cuzna and Guadalbarbo rivers. Guarded by La Chimorra, an unwavering witness to a splendid mining past, Alcaracejos appears crucified as the visitor passes through important communication routes that contrast with the granite and lime of its streets. In the term there are room for the four fundamental landscapes of Los Pedroches; cereal, olive grove areas, cattle pastures and Mediterranean forest. The Arab domination has left as an imprint an interesting set of Arab mills in the river courses that descend from the foothills of the Sierra Morena. The granite lintels of the facades of the traditional houses of Alcaracejos are the most characteristic feature of some houses with small windows, which in their interior are distributed around vaulted spaces. Their facades are used every four years for the popular representation of the Sacramental Auto The Colloquies of the Childhood of Jesus.

• Places to visit:

1. Plaza de Los Pedroches
2. Church of San Andrés
3. Museum of Slaughter
4. Hermitage of San Sebastián
5. Lookout
6. Environmental education point

7. Pozo de la Benita Public Picnic Area

AÑORA
The term Añora has its origin in the Arabic word naura, which means ferris wheel. According to scholars, there are different theories about the creation of the urban nucleus although it seems clear that the first inhabitants of Añora came from the neighboring Torremilano, legally depending on the first location of the second until that it was granted its independence. As for the founding of Añora, it must have occurred in the second half of the 14th century, coinciding with the appearance of new urban centers in the region around Pedroche and Torremilano. On May 27, 1553 the Crown granted the title of Villa to the town, becoming part of the Seven Villas de los Pedroches, county territory as a land belonging to the jurisdiction of Córdoba, until there was a distribution of the communal lands in the mid 19th century. The popular architecture of this town stands out: entire streets with granite ashlar facades highlighted by white strips. The crosses that adorn squares and streets, are decorated at the beginning of May in a festival declared of National Tourist Interest of Andalusia, highlighting the excellent work that the Noriega women have been doing for months.

• Places to visit:

1. Hermitage Virgen de la Peña
2. Hermitage of San Pedro
3. Parish of San Sebastián
4. Church Square
5. Velardas Square
6. Chapel and Park of San Martín