Lucainena de las Torres

The towers in Lucainena's name recall a medieval wall where six towers guarded a seventh, the refuge of villagers during sieges. The village stands at about 550 metres in the Sierra Alhamilla, not far from the Tabernas desert, and won first prize in a village beautification contest in 1998. Iron was once mined in the surrounding hills, and the Senda Minera footpath leads through that landscape.

Highlights

• The 18th-century Baroque parish church
• The Lucainena iron mines, a listed site of geological interest
• Senda Minera (SL-A 62), a waymarked local trail
• Peñón de Lucainena, at 1,004 metres the highest point of the municipality

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.