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What to see and do in Belmez

What to see and do in Belmez (Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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

When to go to Belmez: festival calendar

January: Día de los Tomillos (January 19)

How far each place is from the centre of Belmez

Castillo de Belmez 400 m
Embalse de Sierra Boyera 3.6 km

Towns near Belmez

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What to see and do in Belmez

Belmez
Village
Municipality of the Valle del Guadiato with 2,833 inhabitants (2025), at 532 m altitude and 68 km from the city of Córdoba. Its recent history is tied to coal mining; in 1924 the Escuela de Capataces de Minas (School of Mine Foremen) was founded, the seed of today's Escuela Politécnica.
Castillo de Belmez
Monument
Defensive fortress with semicircular towers and a pentagonal keep 11 metres high overlooking the town. It should not be confused with the phenomenon of the 'Faces of Bélmez', which relates to Bélmez de la Moraleda, in the province of Jaén, a different municipality.
Explosión de la mina Santa Isabel
Historical milestone
On 17 March 1898 an explosion at the Santa Isabel coal mine killed at least 54 miners, aged between 12 and 52, one of the worst mining disasters in the comarca.
Ermitas de Belmez
Monument
In addition to the castle, Belmez preserves the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Castillo, of medieval origin with pointed arches and a Gothic doorway, and the Ermita de la Virgen de los Remedios, the local patroness, located at the entrance to the village.
Dólmenes de Belmez
Monument
The municipal term of Belmez preserves Neolithic megalithic remains: the dolmen of Casas de Don Pedro and the dolmen of the Fuente del Corcho, along with other finds ranging from the Paleolithic to the Muslim period.
Embalse de Sierra Boyera
Nature
A reservoir built in the 1970s over a granite outcrop where two streams meet, in the area around Belmez, between the 935-meter elevation of Pico Pelayo and the 480-meter level of the Guadiato riverbed.
Día de los Tomillos
Activity
A centuries-old tradition in Belmez in which the townspeople gather bundles of wild thyme, pile them up and set them alight at nightfall, giving rise to community bonfires with singing and dancing.
Escuela Universitaria Politécnica de Belmez
Historical milestone
Founded in 1924 as a mining school to train technical engineers and foremen linked to coal extraction in the basin. It moved to its current location in 1977; the original building became the village's health center.