Why is this remote Andalusian town known as the “City of Water”?
This municipality in the Subbética district is also a jewel of Córdoba’s Baroque.
Priego de Córdoba is a municipality of 22,500 inhabitants in the south-east of the province, right in the heart of the Sierras Subbéticas district.
Its municipal area lies within the Sierra Subbética Natural Park, a landscape of steep limestone heights and valleys covered with holm oaks, Portuguese oaks and, along the banks of its watercourses, white poplars.
The town of Priego, one of the most elegant and beautiful in the region, is a collection of streets and secluded corners, stately homes and architectural and sculptural monuments set within an irregular street plan that is hard to sum up. Two features stand out above all: water, for its abundance, and the Baroque, the predominant architectural style.
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