Places to see in ( Arcos de la Frontera - Spain )
Places to see in ( Arcos de la Frontera - Spain )
Arcos de la Frontera is a town and municipality in the Sierra de Cádiz comarca, province of Cádiz, in Andalusia, Spain. Arcos de la Frontera is located on the Northern, Western and Southern banks of the Guadalete river, which flows around three sides of the city under towering vertical cliffs, to Jerez and on to the Bay of Cádiz.
Arcos de la Frontera commands a fine vista atop a sandstone ridge, from which the peak of San Cristóbal and the Guadalete Valley can be seen. Arcos de la Frontera gained its name by being the frontier of Spain's 13th century battle with the Moors.
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Calle Nueva, a highlights street because it was the castle moat. With the 1755 Lisbon earthquake collapsed a stretch of wall that blinds the moat and gives rise to this street. It is decorated with pots, and also is located the old small 'Bar Alcaraván' within a cave.
A Roman altar, located in the alley Callejón de las Monjas.
The Guardacantones, common feature in streets of this town, is a reinforcing of the corners with old columns in which there are capitals of many ages.
Alley Callejón de las Monjas, In 1699 are built the flying buttresses crossing this alley for holding the walls of the church that began to bend under the weight of the vaults. These buttresses join Santa María and the Convento de la Encarnación.
Plaza del Cabildo, a main square, one of its sides is occupied by the lateral facade of Santa María, with its tower, the other side is occupied by the Parador de Turismo, other side the Castillo Ducal (Ducal Castle) and the other side is the famous Mirador de la Peña (a viewpoint) overlooking the whole area of countryside and orchards. In this square there is also a car-parking space occupying most part of the square.
Plaza Botica, a square where it can eat outside. There is located the Convento de las Mercedarias Descalzas and the Convento de los Jesuitas.
Convento de los Jesuitas (Convent of the Jesuits), which began to erect in 1759, stopping to build a few years later because of their expulsion from Spain, thus is unfinished. Currently host a supply market.
Calle Maldonado, one of the town's most painted streets by artists.
Calle Cuna, it is a narrow street whose name comes because it was the entrance to the shelter of foundling children. A reproduction of this street is located in the Poble Espanyol of Barcelona.
Calle Bóvedas, is other typical street of Arcos. Here the slopes are no longer up and begin to descend the hill of the promontory.
Are very typical in Arcos the called ventanas con orejeras (windows with earmuffs), some holes in the sides of the window, in various ways, to observe from inside what happens abroad.
Plaza de Toros de Arcos de la Frontera, a bullring.
The Oficina de Turismo y el Centro de Interpretación de la Ciudad de Arcos (the Tourist Office and Interpretation Center of the City of Arcos), located in a typical old house.
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El Convento de San Andrés y su repostería. Marchena. Sevilla
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El Convento de San Andrés se encuentra situado cerca de la Puerta de Osuna en extramuros, al lado del recinto amurallado y a escasos minutos de la Plaza Ducal, de la Iglesia de San Juan Bautista y de la Puerta del Tiro, en la localidad sevillana de Marchena, fundado en 1537 por Gonzalo Jiménez como sede de varias Capellanías, se convirtió en convento de Mercedarias hacia 1637 gracias al patronazgo de D. Rodrigo Ponce de León, IV Duque de Arcos.
El Convento de San Andrés, fundado por los duques de Arcos y señores de Marchena en 1637, se dedicó a la repostería de forma providencial y de la mano de la solidaridad de una comunidad de otra orden religiosa, Sor Jesús María, lo comentó con otra religiosa de Marchena, Sor Eucaristía, y decidieron dedicarse a elaborar dulces gracias a la generosidad de las jerónimas, que les enseñaron a hacer especialidades de todo tipo y hasta tartas, su dulce más emblemático, la torta de hoja partiendo de la torta sevillana. A través del torno o en la puerta del convento las monjas ofrecen repostería tradicional, realizada con una exquisita elaboración artesanal, capaz de dar satisfacción, al más exigente paladar.
Convento de San Andrés:
Calle Compañía, 1, C. P. 41620, Marchena, Sevilla. Telf: 954 84 38 38
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Oficina Municipal de Turismo de Marchena:
Las Torres, 40, C. P. 41620, Marchena, Sevilla
Telf: 955 84 61 67 turismodemarchena.org/web/