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Ruta Ermitas: Constantina - Cazalla de la Sierra
Chapel Trail: Constantina - Cazalla de la Sierra
Constantina

To visit Constantina is to travel through history, to discover in its streets the vestiges and remains of the different civilisations that make up the collective memory and historical legacy of one of the most important towns in the region.

Ruta Ermitas: La Puebla Infantes - Constantina
Chapel Trail: La Puebla Infantes - Constantina
La Puebla de los Infantes

If you take a look around the National Archaeological Museum one day, you will find a hundred pieces of gold and silver from the 3rd century BC known as the Treasure of La Puebla de los Infantes. This exhibit speaks volumes about the importance this town has had throughout history.

Ruta Ermitas: Guadalcanal - Alanís
Chapel Trail: Guadalcanal - Alanís
Guadalcanal

Although Iberian remains have been found and some historians maintain that Guadalcanal was the Tereses named by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, the first major settlement in this town dates from Moorish times and was called Wad al-Qanal, "river of the canal", or, according to popular etymology, "river of creation".

Ruta Ermitas:S. Nicolás P. Las Navas d la Concepc.
Chapel Trail: S. Nicolás P. Las Navas de la Concepc.
San Nicolás del Puerto

San Nicolás del Puerto is a small town but with an enormous and long history. The first civilisations (it is thought that there were Celtic settlements) gave way to the expanding Roman Empire.

Ruta Ermitas: Almadén Plata - El Real de la Jara
Chapel Trail: Almadén Plata - El Real de la Jara
Almadén de la Plata

The origins of this town date back to Roman times. It was a small village, whose main source of wealth came from the marble quarries, called Pagus Marmorarius, which translated from Latin means "village of the marbles".

Ruta Ermitas:Las Navas Concepc. La Puebla Infantes
Chapel Trail: Las Navas Concepc. La Puebla Infantes
Las Navas de la Concepción

During the Middle Ages there were only cereal farms and livestock farms in this area, and it was not until 1557 that the monks of the Order of San Basilio established themselves in the area and were responsible for designing the layout of the streets of what is today the town.

Bollullos de la Mitación. Fachada de la Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Roncesvalles
Shrine to Nuestra Señora de Roncesvalles

This 19th-century building was previously the San Sebastián Charity Hospital. It has a rectangular plan with a nave and two aisles divided by Tuscan marble columns with semi-circular arches and covered by barrel vaults.