Museo de Porcuna

Museo de Porcuna. 23790, Porcuna How to get

The Porcuna Museum is located in the 15th century Torre de Boabdil, in the historic center of the town. Dedicated to prehistory, Iberian and Roman culture, it has an important collection of Ibero-Roman sculptures. This museum offers guided tours by appointment and a program of activities throughout the year that you can find on its website.

The museum, formerly known as the Obulco Archaeological Museum, has two locations. In the Boabdil Tower of the Porcuna Castle, built in 1435 by the Order of Calatrava, there are rooms 1 and 2. The rest of the rooms are in the premises of the town hall, the former Royal Pósito from the 18th century.

ROOM 1: Paleolithic and Neolithic, with stone tools and ceramics by hand. Iberian culture of the city-state of IPOLCA, with red band pottery, cinerary urns, bronze votive offerings, Iberian coins and sculptures.

ROOM 2: Roman culture of the Ibero-Roman city of OBULCO, with tombstones, ceramics, coins, Corinthian capitals from Obulco and Roman sculpture.

TERRACE: Magnificent views of the countryside of Jaén and Córdoba. Location of the various deposits in Porcuna (Cerrillo Blanco, Alcores, Ciudad de Obulco, etc.)

ROOM 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 group was found that, due to its quantity of pieces, as well as its enormous artistic quality, is the most important of Iberian sculpture.

The museum manages several museum sites: the prehistoric fortified remains of the Los Alcores site (III-I millennium) and the archaeological site of Cerrillo Blanco (burial mound from the 7th century BC with 24 burial graves in a pit, where he was buried in large pits an Iberian sculptural group from the 5th century, exhibited in the Museum of Jaén) and the Obulco site (it shows the remains of a main street with Roman houses from the 1st century AD).