Travel to the Jaén province of Andalucia, Spain – Episode 807

Hear about travel to the Jaén province of Andalucia Spain as the Beginner Traveler talks to Molly Sears-Piccavey who life in Andalucia.

Molly claims, “Jaén is a province in western Andalucia that is not seriously quite recognized or related with tourism. If we acquire southern Spain the western facet of Andalucia which is Granada, Cordoba, Jaén, and Almería are not as touristic potentially as the aspect of Andalucia which is in which Malaga and Seville are. Cordoba and Granada are really properly frequented mainly because of their Muslim architecture these kinds of as the mosque or their Alhambra Palace, but Jaén is inland and a minimal bit even further absent. And lots of people today do not control to find Jaén and I assume Jaén has a ton to give the visitor.”

“The factor that sticks out most in my head is the olive trees. It is the area in Europe with most density of olive trees, and they create clearly a whole lot of olive oil. When you journey to Jaén, Wherever you glance, you are just observing olive trees and even on the highway to Jaén as well as just olive trees as considerably as you can see. It is also a area that has a massive amount of money of castles and fortresses. They declare to be the put with the most castles in Europe. Burgalimar which is in Baños de la Encina is the oldest castle in Europe and it is so value traveling to.”

“They phone Jaén the land of battles and castles but I think they are missing the olive oil so it should be battles, castles, and olive oil.”

For around 200 yrs, Jaén was the border in between Catholic Spain and Moorish Spain, as a result the amount of castles and the walled hilltop cities.

Molly starts us in the funds of Jaén province which is the town of Jaén. We commence in the stunning cathedral of Jaén which may well look familiar as it was utilized as a product for many cathedrals in the new globe. It is proposed as a UNESCO website mainly because of this importance. 

We then climb the hill for a view of the city to the Castle of Santa Catalina and the Parador of Jaén (the national lodge chain) which sit aspect by side with a look at of the town and of the 65 million olive trees in the length. 

The other quit you should really make in Jaén is the Arab Bathes which are the biggest of the previous hammams from the Moorish rule. They sit under the palace of an ex-Viceroy to Peru which residences an art museum and a heritage museum.

We transfer from Jaén across the valley to the twin cities of Úbeda and Baeza which are a joint UNESCO web site for their properties built in the Spanish Renaissance design. Úbeda has a quantity of aged properties all over a huge sq. (Vázquez de Molina Sq.) which includes an aged palace which is now a Parador. There is also an ornate funerary chapel for one of the much more distinguished family members of Úbeda, and the Basílica de Santa María de los Reales Alcázares church.

Baeza is an outdated University town. The previous university is now the higher college but just one of the previous palaces has been turned into a new worldwide college. Baeza has a quieter whitewashed Andalucian town sense with compact streets and flower containers. 

Molly also suggests visiting Baños de la Encina and the Burgalimar Castle as effectively as Alcalá la True and its Fortaleza de La Mota. These metropolitan areas ended up even closer to the border with Moorish Grenada so they had the far more major fortifications. 

Jaén also has 4 purely natural parks with a wide range of things to do which includes climbing, but Molly who prospects food stuff excursions focuses us additional on spots we can get a good meal. 

Jaén is a beautiful location of Spain that warrants additional tourism than it gets… but you may not want to go to in the heat of the summer season as I did not too long ago on a press vacation.

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Exhibit Notes

piccavey.com
Spain Foodstuff Sherpas Tours
Undiscovered Spain – The Jaén Province of Andalucia
Andalusia
Province of Jaén (Spain)
Border of Granada
Jaén
Jaén Cathedral
Parador de Jaén
Sierra Mágina
Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Purely natural Park
Pegalajar
Restaurante La Alcuza (Pegalajar)
Castle of Santa Catalina (Jaén)
Arab Baths of Jaén
Museo Internacional Arte Naïf
Naïve artwork
Baga Cafe
Úbeda
Vázquez de Molina Square
Parador of Ubeda
Basílica de Santa María de los Reales Alcázares
Lodge Palacio De Úbeda
Sinagoga del Agua
Palacio de Vela de los Cobos
Baeza, Spain
Baeza Cathedral
Plaza del Populo
Castulo
University of Baeza
Palace of Jabalquinto
Alcalá la Authentic
Fortaleza de La Mota
Baños de la Encina
Burgalimar Castle
Cherry Festival in Castillo de Locubin
Vandalvide Cafe, Baeza
Taberna El Pajaro, Baeza

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Patron Jeff commented on Travel to the South of Iceland – Beginner Traveler Episode 802

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