- In Baños de la Encina, on the shore of the Rumblar reservoir, lies this site more than 4,000 years old.
- Peñalosa is a Bronze Age site whose activity centred mainly on the metalworking of the area’s resources.
- In the settlement, built of slate, different levels can be made out, linked by narrow streets.
- On the lowest level, right by the water of the reservoir, the walls that bounded the settlement can be clearly seen. According to several studies, it was abandoned around 1600 BC.
More about this place…
In Baños de la Encina, Peñalosa is a site more than 4,000 years old belonging to the El Argar culture. This beautiful settlement, built entirely of slate, lived off the metal resources of the mines of Sierra Morena, rich in copper ore.
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