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What to see and do in Jerez de los Caballeros

What to see and do in Jerez de los Caballeros (Sierra Suroeste, Badajoz): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 8 Monuments · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities

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What to see and do in Jerez de los Caballeros

Jerez de los Caballeros
Village
City of 9,095 inhabitants (INE 2025) at 505 m altitude, conquered by Alfonso IX of León in 1230 with Templar support. With the Temple, a repopulation of the comarca began from 1312; in 1370 Enrique II of Castile handed it over to the Order of Santiago. Declared a conjunto histórico-artístico (historic-artistic ensemble) in 1966. Known as 'the city of the four towers' for its Baroque towers.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Curiosity
The explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, was born around 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, which claims him as one of its illustrious native sons.
Castillo templario de Jerez de los Caballeros
Monument
13th-century fortress built over an earlier Muslim alcazaba.
Iglesia de San Bartolomé
Monument
One of the four great Baroque churches of Jerez de los Caballeros, with a 1759 tower whose tile decoration recalls the Giralda of Sevilla.
Iglesias de San Miguel Arcángel y Santa Catalina
Monument
Two of the Baroque towers that give Jerez de los Caballeros its nickname 'city of the four towers': San Miguel Arcángel (1749) and Santa Catalina (1762).
Iglesia de Santa María de la Encarnación
Monument
16th-century church with a tower added in the 18th century, one of the four great parish churches of the historic center.
Casa Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Centro de Interpretación
Monument
A museum housed in the house where the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean was born. It is arranged over three levels dedicated to Balboa and the conquest, to the history of Jerez de los Caballeros, and to the Order of the Temple.
Torre del Reloj de Jerez de los Caballeros
Monument
The tower of the Templar castle, built from 1739 by Pedro de la Vega on top of a 16th-century tower previously used as a powder magazine, to house the town's clock.
Convento de la Consolación (Jerez de los Caballeros)
Monument
A convent founded in 1499 after a visit to Jerez by the Visitor General of the Order of Saint Francis, when a group of women asked Pope Alexander VI for authorization to profess the rule of Saint Clare.
Murallas y puertas de Jerez de los Caballeros
Monument
Surviving stretches of the town's medieval wall, with two monumental gates still standing: the Puerta del Burgo and that of la Cilla, or San Antoñito.
Semana Santa de Jerez de los Caballeros
Activity
Declared a Fiesta de Interés Turístico Nacional in 2015. Eight brotherhoods and confraternities take part in eleven processions that wind through the town's historic-artistic site from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.