Description
The Porcilla Museum is located in the 15th century Boabdil Tower, in the historic centre of the town. Dedicated to prehistory, to Iberian and Roman culture, it has an important collection of Ibero-Roman sculptures. This museum offers guided tours with prior appointment and activity programming throughout the year that you can find your website.
The museum, formerly called the Archaeological Museum of Obulco, has two sites. In the Boabdil Torreon of the Porcella Castle built in 1435 by the Order of Calatrava, there are rooms 1 and 2. The rest of the rooms are located in the city hall, the former Royal Posite of the 18th century.
SOLA 1: Paleolithic and Neolithic, with legal and ceramic tools. Iberian culture of the city-state of IPOLCA, with ceramic red bands, cinerary urns, bronze exvotes, coins and Iberian sculptures.
SALA 2: Roman culture of the Ibero-Roman city of OBULCO, with tombstones, ceramics, coins, Corinthian capitals of Obulco and Roman sculpture.
TERRAZA: Magnificent views of the countryside of Jaén and Córdoba. Location of the various fields of Porcilla (Cerrillo Blanco, Alcores, City of Obulco, etc.).
SALA 3: Ibero-Roman culture, with development of vertical themes (sculpture, economy, rites, etc.).
It includes a guided tour of the Archaeological Park of Cerrillo Blanco, where an Iberian sculptural ensemble was found that for its number of pieces, as for its enormous artistic quality is the most important of the Iberian sculpture.
The museum manages several musealized deposits: the prehistoric fortified remains of the Los Alcores (III- I millennium) and the archaeological site of Cerrillo Blanco (a funerary building of the 7th century BC with 24 tombs of inhumation in posa, where an Iberian sculptural group of the 5th century, exposed in the Museum of Jaén, was buried in large graves) and the site of Obulco (it shows the remains of a main street with Roman houses of the 1st century AD).
