Ubeda
Aug 9, 2022 13:16:45 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Aug 9, 2022 13:16:45 GMT
I thought it’d be nice to see a town worthy of a visit on those long summer late afternoons/evenings when the fierce heat has gone out of the day. Plenty of shade to walk around in and then later have a good meal.
Ubeda - towns like Ubeda are away from the usual tourist sites and not part of the famous “white village” routes of Andalusia. It’s about an hour away from me and this and its sister town, Baeza, I nip to every year.
A Unesco Heritage town with a number of Renaissance palaces and churches. Patronised by Castilian aristocratic families Úbeda became a Renaissance focus in Spain and from there Renaissance architecture spread to Seville and America.
“The city possesses 48 monuments, and more than another hundred of buildings of interest, almost all of them of Renaissance style.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Abeda
Originally fortified by the Moors in the 9th Century (several gates, towers and lengths of wall still exist) after the Christian re-conquest in 1233, renovations were made and later the architecture took on its Renaissance appearance.
I don’t have specifics of every building as my daughter and I have been there a few times and just wanted a night in the town to stretch our legs. So this is more of an overview and familiarisation of some of the buildings around.
Whilst we were having the house renovated, somewhere around 2010 and the kids were smaller, we had a wander round and called into an old palace that is now a posh hotel. One girl, a little fed up with having to have a wash under a hose pipe, asked, “Why can’t we live here?”
Ubeda - towns like Ubeda are away from the usual tourist sites and not part of the famous “white village” routes of Andalusia. It’s about an hour away from me and this and its sister town, Baeza, I nip to every year.
A Unesco Heritage town with a number of Renaissance palaces and churches. Patronised by Castilian aristocratic families Úbeda became a Renaissance focus in Spain and from there Renaissance architecture spread to Seville and America.
“The city possesses 48 monuments, and more than another hundred of buildings of interest, almost all of them of Renaissance style.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Abeda
Originally fortified by the Moors in the 9th Century (several gates, towers and lengths of wall still exist) after the Christian re-conquest in 1233, renovations were made and later the architecture took on its Renaissance appearance.
I don’t have specifics of every building as my daughter and I have been there a few times and just wanted a night in the town to stretch our legs. So this is more of an overview and familiarisation of some of the buildings around.
Whilst we were having the house renovated, somewhere around 2010 and the kids were smaller, we had a wander round and called into an old palace that is now a posh hotel. One girl, a little fed up with having to have a wash under a hose pipe, asked, “Why can’t we live here?”