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What to see and do in La Rambla

What to see and do in La Rambla (Campiña Sur, Córdoba): 9 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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

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What to see and do in La Rambla

La Rambla
Village
Municipality in the Campiña Sur with 7,412 inhabitants (2025) and at 358 m altitude, 41 km from the city of Córdoba. Of possible Roman origin (Sabetum), it was conquered around 1237–1240 by Ferdinand III and obtained town status in 1423.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (La Rambla)
Monument
16th-century church with a Plateresque doorway attributed to Hernán Ruiz I. The town also preserves remains of a medieval castle, the Convento de la Santísima Trinidad (founded in 1527) and the Torre de las Monjas (1757).
Récord de calor de La Rambla (2021)
Curiosity
On 14 August 2021 the La Rambla weather station recorded 47.6°C, validated by the AEMET as the highest absolute temperature ever measured in Spain, ahead of the 47.2°C recorded at Montoro (13 July 2017).
Alfarería de La Rambla
Activity
La Rambla maintains a centuries-old pottery tradition, with more than a hundred workshops producing botijos (spouted water jugs), four-spouted jugs, pots and pitchers, distributed throughout Spain and abroad.
Ermita del Calvario (La Rambla)
Monument
Hermitage located on the Cerro del Mentidero of La Rambla, where King Peter I placed a monolith in 1353 to commemorate the surrender of Aguilar; the current neoclassical building was rebuilt in 1843.
Torre de las Monjas (La Rambla)
Monument
Baroque tower from 1757, the work of Francisco Ambrosio de León, the only part still standing of the former Dominican convent of the Consolación of La Rambla.
La reunión anticomunera de La Rambla
Historical milestone
On 6 February 1521, during the reign of Charles I, the Andalusian cities opposed to the Comuneros met in La Rambla, an event the town regards as the most important of that period in its history.
Vasos campaniformes del yacimiento de la Minilla
Historical milestone
At the site of La Minilla, in La Rambla, bell beaker vessels more than four thousand years old have been found, a remote precedent of the local pottery tradition.
Antonio Prieto Lucena, obispo de Alcalá de Henares
Curiosity
Antonio Prieto Lucena, born in La Rambla, was appointed bishop of Alcalá de Henares on 10 June 2023.