Touristic places

This building currently holds the Andrés Segovia House-Museum as well as its Foundation. The house was built in the 17th century and belonged to the Orozco family, whose coat of arms is still present in the façade. In the interior there is a Castilian courtyard and on the façade the noble balcony stands out, with a twinned arched door divided by a simple mullion.

This building is located on the City Hall Square. The most interesting parts of the façade are the steeple and the ledges on top of it and the windows on the top floor with semicircular arches.

The castle is supposed to have been built in the 13th century and was standing until the 19th century when all fortifications were destroyed. From the original remains it’s still standing today a tower on one of the corners inside a religious enclosure and some remains of the wall. The access door was at the end of the right part. The fortification was flanked by an Albarran tower isolated from the rest of the enclosure. During the Berber period an inner wall and a moat were added. Finally the Christians reinforced the fortress by adding machicolations and raised the towers over the allure to give them more autonomy.

This building, designed by the council architect Francisco de Paula Casado y Gómez, was built between 1903 and 1906. It is a modernist construction that imitates a neomudéjar style using bare brick over a stone plinth.

According to the legend, by the 16th century, when a knight was passing over there, his horse got its paw trapped into the mud. When the animal freed its paw, the knight saw how an abundant water steam spouted. Since then, the spring has never ceased flowing. That legend of a spring that merged when a horse “stepped on it” (pisar in Spanish) can be explained due to the existence of a Roman aqueduct. It was supplied by the springs of Linarejos and brought the water to Cástulo. During the Roman domination, its inhabitants built that construction which is still preserved.

This square is named after an old inn called “Posada El Gallo” (The Rooster Inn) and was located on that place in the 18th century. In the centre of the small square, there is a column with a rooster on top of it, which used to be made in stone. In that time, the square was tiled with marble in different colours and even tombstones. Here we can also find one of the oldest ancestral homes that are preserved in Linares: Mr Mariano de la Paz’s house from 1860.

The English Cemetery of Linares was the first Protestant graveyard ever built in Andalusia. Many British people came to the then borough of Linares with the aim of making business by extracting lead. They brought an unknown technology in this area, called Cornish. Its main advantage was the increase in productivity, which provoked a migratory phenomenon without precedent in that time.
The economic influence was obvious, but foreigners also brought other aspects whose legacy still remains in our society, culture and religion. All these features are present in the English Cemetery. A stone staircase leads to its gate and after it there is a leafy garden that delimits the streets of the graveyard. It also decorates and highlights the sobriety of the tombs preserved since 1855. The English Cemetery of Linares is currently part of the Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe (ASCE).

It is a monument in honour of the international guitarist Andrés Segovia. It was made in bronze by the sculptor Julio López Hernández. The monument is located on top of a pedestal, inside a fountain in the centre of America Circus, at the end of Linarejos Esplanade.

Located on St Margarita’s Park, it was made by the sculptor Amadeo Ruiz del Olmo and dates from 1972. It is a bust of Manolete made in bronze in honour of the bullfighter, who died in St Margarita’s bullring in Linares because of a goring by the bull Islero on 28th August, 1947.

In the central roundabout of the City Hall Square, we can find the monument that is dedicated to St Pedro Poveda on the centenary of his birth. It was unveiled on 1st December, 1974. Sculpted by Antonio González Orea, it is a rectangular plaque made of bronze supported by two granite columns from the Iberian-Roman city of Cástulo.
On the left top part, a medallion reproduces the face of the saint as well as the initials of his name and surname. On the centre lower part, there are open books that represent teaching and education, which were constant themes during his life and his message. Beside these books, there is the palm of martyrdom. On the right top part, there are cereal ears that symbolize the fruits of his work. On the reverse of the plaque it is written the quote “to the good man, the founder, his grateful people.”