Baeza

A hilltop town in Jaén where a Visigothic castle tower, a Renaissance episcopal palace, and a Plateresque church doorway mark three thousand years of continuous settlement in the Guadalquivir valley.

A UNESCO World Heritage city in Jaén, Úbeda holds what archaeologists say is the oldest scientifically documented urban site in western Europe, surrounded by Renaissance palaces, medieval churches, and the layered stones of six thousand years of continuous human presence.

A walled hilltop town in Jaén, Sabiote holds a Renaissance castle rebuilt by the secretary of Charles V, a near-complete medieval circuit of walls, and streets that have changed little since the 16th century.

An industrial mining city in Jaén, Andalucía, built on the ruins of Cástulo — one of the ancient world's most strategically fought-over settlements, where Iberian, Carthaginian, and Roman ambitions collided over the same rich seams of metal.

A town in Jaén, Andalucía, built around the Burgalimar castle and surrounded by olive groves, where Bronze Age settlements, medieval fortifications, and a string of hermitages mark out centuries of continuous habitation.

A planned colonial town built from scratch in 1767 in the Sierra Morena mountains of Jaén, its grid streets and neoclassical palace still reflecting the 18th-century vision that created it.

A town with roots stretching back to dinosaur tracks and Iberian silver, its Arab castle, Visigothic temple, and medieval walls rising above the olive-covered hills of Jaén in northern Andalucía.

Perched in the mountains of Jaén, Cazorla holds two castles on a single hilltop, a ruined Renaissance church that became an open-air stage, and a history stretching from Iberian settlements to a medieval frontier lordship.

A hilltop medieval town in Jaén whose Arabic name means "castle" and whose car-free old streets, Islamic fortress ruins, and Renaissance church have earned it status as a protected historic ensemble.