Monument in Ubeda
Also known as Torre del Reloj
FreeCosts nothing to visit.
A freestanding Renaissance clock tower on Plaza de Andalucia, the square that bridges modern Ubeda and its historic quarter. It began as a tower on the medieval city wall and was raised to carry a clock in the sixteenth century. It is free to see and works as a natural orientation point. From here the monumental Renaissance core around Plaza Vazquez de Molina is a short walk south, so the tower makes an easy, no-cost starting marker for a self-guided loop through the old town.
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Gothic and Renaissance collegiate church raised over Ubeda's former main mosque, anchoring one end of the Plaza Vazquez de Molina alongside the Sacra Capilla del Salvador and the Palace of Dean Ortega. The interior and cloister charge a small entry fee, but the square outside and the church facade cost nothing to admire.
A Plateresque palace in Ubeda with a grand double-towered facade, one of the most ornate civil frontages in the town's Renaissance old town. The building now houses the local School of Art, and the facade is free to admire from the street. The interior courtyard is often accessible during school hours at no charge.
The Church of San Lorenzo is one of Ubeda's most unusual monuments: a 13th-century church-fortress built straight onto the Almohad city wall, so its south side doubles as a stretch of the old defences and its wall walkway, the adarve, opens out as a balcony over the Guadalquivir valley and the olive groves below.
The Church of San Pablo is one of the oldest churches in Ubeda, with origins reaching back to the Visigothic period and a long history of rebuilding that left it layered in Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance work.
One of the surviving medieval gates in Ubeda's old walls, opening toward the south and the road to Granada. Free to walk up to at any hour, it marks where the city once faced the Reconquista frontier. A quick, no-cost stop on the way to or from the Renaissance core around Plaza Vazquez de Molina.
The Mirador de San Lorenzo is one of the best free views in Ubeda, and it costs nothing because it is simply the old city wall turned into a balcony.
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