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What to see and do in Cañete de las Torres

What to see and do in Cañete de las Torres (Alto Guadalquivir, Córdoba): 9 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 2 Activities · 2 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to Cañete de las Torres: festival calendar

June: Cañeteando (last weekend of June)
September: Real Feria de San Miguel (finales de septiembre a comienzos de octubre)

How far each place is from the centre of Cañete de las Torres

Castillo de Cañete de las Torres 150 m
Ermita de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno 6.1 km

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What to see and do in Cañete de las Torres

Cañete de las Torres
Village
Municipality in the Alto Guadalquivir with 2,766 inhabitants (2025) and a territory of 103.52 km². The town was granted to Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba by the city of Córdoba on 9 June 1293 in reward for military service. Its territory preserves settlement remains from the Neolithic through to Roman times.
Castillo de Cañete de las Torres
Monument
Medieval fortress whose keep today houses a museum of local history. Beside it stands the parish church of La Asunción (16th–17th centuries), attributed to the Renaissance architect Cristóbal de Rojas, and the old Tercias building (17th–18th centuries), used for collecting tithes.
¿Calpurniana romana?
Curiosity
Some researchers place the Roman city of Calpurniana at Cañete de las Torres, though the identification has not been definitively confirmed by archaeology.
Ermita de Madre de Dios
Monument
18th-century hermitage in Cañete de las Torres, with a Baroque plasterwork dome.
Ermita de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno
Monument
16th-century single-nave hermitage in Cañete de las Torres, with a stone doorway.
El señorío de Cañete en el siglo XIII
Historical milestone
On 9 June 1293 the council of Córdoba granted the lordship of Cañete to Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba, a grant that King Sancho IV confirmed in Burgos on 8 July of that same year.
La Escalera del Cielo del cementerio de Cañete
Curiosity
The funerary monument known as the "Escalera del Cielo" (Stairway to Heaven), in the cemetery of Cañete de las Torres, was chosen in 2014 as the best monument in any cemetery in Spain.
Real Feria de San Miguel
Activity
Cañete de las Torres's patron saint fair, held between late September and early October.
Cañeteando
Activity
Free music festival in Cañete de las Torres, with more than ten continuous hours of concerts, held on the last weekend of June.