Description
While you enjoy strolling through the marvelous Historic Center of Baeza, come to Arco del Barbudo.This stone arch is what remains of one of the main access gates to the city. Its real name is San León arch, in honor of the Franciscan convent and previous hermitage until it changed its name to “Puerta del Barbudo”. The reason is given by the Portuguese Martín Yánez de la Barbuda, Master of the Order of Alcántara, who in 1394 left through this door with a large army to fight against the Granada Muslims, being defeated and killed. It is also the door that forces and through which Jorge Manrique and his allies are supposed to have entered in the fight against Diego Fernández de Córdoba. Through this door, built in masonry, opening an opening with a semicircular arch of radial voussoirs and narrow ashlar jambs, one accessed the Barbican, a defensive space that remained between the walls.
