La Guardia de Jaén RV Overnight Parking Area

What it offers

Small municipality located in the west of the Sierra Mágina region, a few kilometres from the capital. The urban core, located at the eastern end of the Cerro de San Cristóbal, looking at the Guadalbullion River, conserves the tipism of its white houses and its steep and narrow streets.

Among the natural enclaves of interest of La Guardia are the Cerro de San Cristóbal, whose summit is repopulated with pine trees, and the Vega of the Guadalbullón river itself, which continues to preserve an abundant riverside vegetation.

La Guardia offers many possibilities for walking, horse or bicycle excursions, such as the Cañada del Santo or the banks of the Guadalbullion River. Of archaeological interest are the settlements of Guadaola (period of emiral), the Roman villa of the Yuca, or the different Ibero-Roman necropolis of Las Eas de San Sebastián and Barranquillo.

The castle, of Arab origin, which was remodeled as a palacio-citadel by the Messias in the 14th and 15th centuries, is the main architectural jewel of the town, along with the parish Church of the Assumption, a work of the 16th century that was originally convent of the Dominicans.