Old Town of Segura de la Sierra

Published on 20/02/2017

Segura de la Sierra (Sierra de Segura)

Monuments, Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park, Castles and Fortresses

With barely 2,000 inhabitants, Segura de la Sierra stands 1,240 metres up in the very centre of the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park.
The village reached its height under Arab rule, a time recalled by its spectacular castle and its Arab baths, places we have already shown you here.
Today we invite you on a walk through its narrow, steep streets: a lovely route past the house where the poet Jorge Manrique was born, the Imperial Fountain of Charles V, the parish church of Nuestra Señora del Collado and its square bullring.
Four of the gates that led into the town through the wall can still be seen today: Catena, Gontar, Orcera and the Puerta Nueva, rebuilt in the 16th century.

More about this place…

A must-stop, Segura de la Sierra is without doubt one of the most beautiful villages not only in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park but in the province of Jaén and all of Andalusia. Its spectacular castle and Arab baths are the crowning touch of an old town of small, steep streets climbing the slope of the hill the village stands on. In this article we take in the singular beauty of its streets and other emblematic places such as its square bullring, the Imperial Fountain of Charles V and the parish church of Nuestra Señora del Collado.