Priego de Cordoba

[OnlyMark]

Priego de Cordoba is another one of those blink and you’ve driven past it towns in Andalusia. It’s not on a main route to anywhere and is all too often devoid of any tourists whatsoever. Yet it is worthy of a walk around for a few hours.
In fact, we do it often in the evening as it’s about 20 mins to half an hour away from our house. This time though we arrived in the early afternoon as we had a visitor who wanted to see it in the daylight. Normally we’d arrive as the sun was setting.

The Romans arrived around the 3rd Century BC and remained until about the 5th C AD.
The Moors arrived in the 9th Century and apart from a brief time back in Christian hands in the 13th Century it remained Arabic until the reconquest of it in 1341.
The Baroque artistic style influenced the buildings in the 17th and 18th Centuries due to a famous architect and a local school of Art.

We’ll start off at the main square where the Town Hall is, built in 1952 on the site of an old convent -




Then we skirt around the side of the main streets to get to the “balcony” -








Lovely little statue on the edge of the balcony of a kid with a catapult -




This speaks for itself -










Cutting back through the oldest part of the town at the end of the balcony -




An ornate church -

[OnlyMark]

Nearby is the castle. The other end of the scale where simplicity rules -








Time for a quick snack of churros. To be fair, it wasn’t the best at all, but sufficient to nibble on -








We then come to -




The slaughterhouse -

[OnlyMark]

Inside was a small art exhibition. I need my Spanish speaking spouse to translate this again as she did at the time but I’ve forgotten. I’ll try and update it later.
Quite sad -












Now heading through the main streets to what the town is famous for - but only if you know what it’s famous for, if you see what I mean. Some of the buildings on the way -
















A “hidden gem”. The fountain. On a hot day it’s a couple of degrees at least cooler here than the rest of the town -
















Last couple of shots on the way back to the car and home and a dip in the pool -

[Voy]

Once again...a zillion thanks! This is one I want to go to ! And that first church -the word that came to mind was "Cuzenio"(spelling) -- it immediately felt I was back in one of the churches there - all that gold !

[sophie]

I just want to run out and buy a plane ticket now…

[kuskiwi]

Lovely area, and great pictures. Thanks Mark

[OnlyMark]

You're welcome.

[Baz Faz]

I love those small Spanish towns. Sorry the churros weren't the best. I love them for breakfast.

[OnlyMark]

We'd had breakfast at home that day but there is a really good place in the local town we usually go to. Though I eat them rarely now, too many calories, especially with a cup of thick chocolate.

[Baz Faz]

We have a "Mexican" restaurant in town (chef English, wife half Lebanese) and they were advertising churros at £5 as a special deal yesterday. Not tempted.