🏛️ Historical Heritage
⛪ Church of San Mateo
Considered the cathedral of the Subbética, it houses the Sagrario, a Baroque chapel of polychrome plasterwork that is a summit of Andalusian Rococo.
Church / Cathedral🏯 Counts of Santa Ana Palace
An 18th-century Baroque palace in Lucena, with a monumental doorway and a courtyard staircase under a dome, today an interpretation centre of the Sephardic city.
Palace or civil architecture🌆 Historic Centre of Lucena
It preserves traces of its Jewish past as Eliossana, the Pearl of Sepharad, beside the Moral Castle where Boabdil was imprisoned and an exceptional Hebrew necropolis.
Historic Quarter🏭 Historic Distilleries of Rute
Copper stills from the 19th century still in use, distilling the anisette that made Rute famous, with museums preserving the original machinery and artisan process.
Industrial heritage🎭 Culture
🥃 Anisette Museum
In Rute, a working traditional distillery explaining the artisan process of anisette, alongside an award-winning Andalusian courtyard and century-old copper stills.
Museum🍬 Mantecado Museum
In Rute, a gastronomic space displaying great Andalusian monuments modelled entirely in sugar and chocolate, alongside the tradition of this Christmas sweet.
Museum🍽️ Gastronomy
🥃 Rute Anisette
A legendary spirit from Rute, in the Córdoba Subbética, made in artisan distilleries for centuries. Both the sweet anisette and the dry one, popularly known as machaco, are outstanding.
Gastronomy☕ Rute Coffee Liqueur
Besides its famous anisette, Rute produces a highly aromatic black coffee liqueur by hand, distilled in traditional copper stills.
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