13 km from Santisteban on the same road to the Condado, is this town famous for its famous Iberian Sanctuary, located in the Lobera cave, which has provided a large number of votive offerings and other materials with which in part a Iberian art museum in the so-called Torre de Pallarés, a medieval tower next to the current Town Hall.
The classicist mark is provided by the Collegiate Church of Santiago, a teaching and religious foundation carried out by Mendo de Benavides, a native of the town, bishop of Cartagena-Murcia and President of the Chancellery of Granada, in 1633, with the project and realization of Juan de Aranda Salazar , Senior Master of the Cathedral of Jaén, and worthy heir to the best stonework school of the 16th century in Jaén. To highlight in his Sacristy the series of portraits of Pontiffs and landscape paintings.
The Parish Church of the Incarnation is Gothic in style but with a sacristy much in the style of Juan de Aranda, the result of the reforms carried out at the head in the 17th century. The main cover is also of sober classicism of that century. As a movable art, its baroque altarpiece stands out.
The whole environment of the parish deserves to be visited for the good conservation of its hamlet in which we find Renaissance facades as interesting as that of the House of the Ten, on Antonio Díez street, of a quite licentious Renaissance style in its ornamentation.
Of greater packaging is the old Ducal Palace of Medinaceli, current headquarters of the City Council, opposite the Collegiate Church, which belonged to the Dukes of Medinaceli, when absorbing the title of the County. It is, however, a late Renaissance work, completely renovated inside to adapt it to the new use.
About 3 km from the town is the Consolación hermitage, next to the remains of an old medieval castle, in a beautiful natural setting. The large hermitage houses the image of the patron saint and is the subject of a festive Pilgrimage on May 3 when the image of the hermitage is transferred to the town, where it remains until September.
The May holiday is rounded off with a famous Rapid Painting Contest, the last week of the month.
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