Yacimiento Arqueológico del Castellón Alto
The Castellón Alto settlement is part of the El Argar culture, in an advanced period of the Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC), where between eighty and one hundred people may have lived there.
Today, it is partially rebuilt and a visit allows you to learn about what daily life was like in an Argaric settlement dating back more than 3,500 years BC.
The Castellón Alto site is part of the Network of Cultural Spaces of Andalusia (RECA).
Archaeological-Ethnographic Museum of Galera
The Galera Archaeological Museum is located in the former convent of Cristo Rey and preserves and exhibits objects belonging to practically all periods of historical development in this region. The oldest sites are around 4,500 years old and the most recent belong to the medieval period. It houses vestiges from the Copper Age, the El Argar culture, the Bronze Age and the successive settlements of Iberians, Romans, Visigoths and Muslims.
The original mummified remains from grave 121 of the Castellón Alto site are on display, a mummy that appeared in 2002 in an excellent state of preservation.
El Geoparque
The Granada Geopark, which was declared a World Geopark by UNESCO in 2020, has an area of 4,722km2 that includes 47 municipalities in the regions of Guadix, Baza, Huéscar and Montes. It covers a territory of contrasts in the central sector of the Betic Mountains and includes some of the highest peaks on the peninsula, including the Sierra de la Sagra or Sierra Nevada.
It is an inhospitable landscape of great beauty that holds a unique geological heritage on the European continent and that will not leave indifferent the visitor who ventures to discover it. Here you can find more useful information, maps and guides of the territory. If you are interested in getting to know this unique territory, we recommend that you take a look at the following manual of good practices for visitors.
Fuencaliente Huéscar
The Fuencaliente spring is a thermal spring with 6,000 m2, it is the centre of a recreational-sports complex of more than 20,000 m2, which has parking, avenues, a lawn area, sports facilities, large terraces and restaurant service. It is located 2 km from Huéscar in the direction of Puebla de Don Fadrique.
The complex is built around a natural water source converted into a swimming pool. The slightly thermal character (19 ºC) of its waters is due to the circulation of this through fractures and faults so common on this edge of the basin.
Fuencaliente Orce
This is a hot spring that has been converted into a public swimming pool with gardens, a lawn, a restaurant and a picnic area. Recreational area.
One of the curiosities of this spring is the richness and purity of its waters, so visitors can see fish without any difficulty.
The water that flows in Fuencaliente is of underground origin and is renewed continuously without treatment plants or chemical processes. It has great mineral-medicinal properties and many visitors come here for treatment.
Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor
Declared a Site of Cultural Interest on February 8, 1973, it is the most emblematic monument of the city in which Gothic, Baroque and Plateresque styles are mixed. An omnipotent temple due to its cathedral-like dimensions in Gothic-Renaissance style from the beginning of the 16th century.
Declared a National Monument, it was built in the 16th century conceived as an authentic cathedral. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named the Church of Santa María la Mayor in Huéscar a Perpetual Jubilee Temple, like the Papal Basilica of Santa María La Mayor in Rome.
Rodríguez Penalva Municipal Park
The Rodríguez Penalva Municipal Park is a recreational space where we can relax and enjoy a pleasant walk. There is an area where the swings are located so that the little ones can enjoy themselves. Apart from the swings, it has sports equipment where adults do gymnastic activities. It is a space widely used for summer walks and for sports throughout the year.
It also has a dovecote, undoubtedly a calm and enjoyable walk for the visitor.
Casa Palacio de los Penalva
This beautiful modernist house located on the Paseo del Santo Cristo, built at the beginning of the century, in 1915, is a peculiar and tremendously unique work in these parts. It is a valuable example of Andalusian modernism, dedicated to the purest and most refined Catalan style, in which the influence of Gaudí is clear and evident in its exquisite organic-vegetal decoration, characteristic of the ornate taste of Catalan architecture of the time.
Distributed on three levels, its rooms house different architectural styles: Modernist façade in the Gaudí style.
Theatre of Huéscar
The theatre building is located in the church of the former Convent of Santo Domingo, declared a Site of Cultural Interest. The building has one of the most important jewels of Huéscar. It is its Mudejar coffered ceiling that covers the current stalls. This was built in the mid-16th century and has been preserved as it was originally.
It is a meeting place and a place to enjoy not only shows, but also rest and relax in a very charming place that is more than four hundred years old.
Las Secuoyas «árboles gigantes»
The sequoias or Sequoiadendron giganteum, are large trees planted at the beginning of the 19th century in the Cortijo de La Losa in Huéscar, which are up to 70 metres tall and have a perimeter of more than 7 metres.
Also known as mariantonias, this species of tree that can live for more than a thousand years and exceed a hundred metres in height comes from California in the United States. They were brought by the Duke of Wellington, which is why they were initially known as wellingtonas and then as mariantonias.
Sierra de La Sagra
The Sierra de la Sagra, with its 2,381 metres, the highest point of the Subbética mountain range and the Granada plateau, is located between the municipalities of Huéscar and Puebla de Don Fadrique.
Their condition as limestone mountain ranges makes them stand out as a karstic landscape, characterised by remains of holm oak forests, pine forests with rugged slopes, unique juniper forests, post-glacial flora of great interest, and a fauna shared with the Sierra de Castril, with many interesting invertebrates, among which butterflies and beetles stand out.
