Turismo Educa Íllora

The AMPA PARAPANDA, with funding from the Granada Provincial Council and the collaboration of the CEIP Gran Capitán and the Íllora City Council, promotes an educational tourism project where,

through a multilingual audio guide system and QR codes, it will be possible to learn about the history of the main places and monuments of the municipality of Íllora in the voices of the students of the schools.

Monuments

Márquez House

Constructed between 1890 and 1917 with style neomudéjar, this is one of the most famous houses of Íllora's urban landscape. It was raised, in two heights, by returned Indians proceeding from Cuba. The front is symmetrical from the door of entry, with a regular disposition of two vain ones. His construction traverses parallel to that of the hotel [...]

The Great Capitain’s House

Gonzalo Fernandez of Cordoba (1453 - 1515), called Great Captain, will happen to be some of the illustrious prominent figures of our villa in the moment in which it turns into the first Warden after the capture of the zone by the Catholics Kings into 1486. Íllora's brilliant conquest, for the important strategic situation that this square was [...]

Castle of Íllora

Íllora's Castle is an Arabic strength that was begun to construct, according to the chronological realized studies, during the period califal (s. IX-X) and it used as defensive bastion during the Reconquest opposite to Castile inside the frontier system. His special strategic situation, from which there is spied the whole From Granada fertile plaine and his continuous connection [...]

The Convent of San Pedro de Alcántara

RELIGIOUS BUILDING, HOUSE OF CHARITY AND THE FIRST EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ÍLLORA The building in which we are, that at present it shelters the dependences of Íllora's Town hall, belongs to the former church of the Convent of San's Pedro Order of Alcántara. According to the Geographical Statistical Dictionary of 1850, the license for his foundation was [...]

Hermitage of Holy Catalina and Old Cementery

Though we know exactly neither the moment of his construction, according to D. Antonio Verdejo's work The confraternity and the hermitage of Holy Catalina of Íllora, we have references on her from 1598, moment in which the Licentiate Diego Muñoz, alderman and doctor of the villa, left for testament the order of which the day of Holy Catalina, [...]

Church of the Encarnacion

The Church of the Encarnación was started constructing in 1541, with the works of the major chapel and the tower under Diego de Siloé's supervision, on a lot that was probably occupied by a mosque first and by a Mudejar church later. During the XVIIth and XVIIIth century there are constructed the vaults of the ship and the [...]