Town hall

Villanueva of Algaidas has his orígen in foundation of the Convent of Our Lady of the Consolation of Algaidas, authorized in 1566 by D. Pedro Téllez Girón, the first Duke of Osuna, in favor of the Gathering of the Quiet Parents of S. Francisco de Asís. About the same one children began creating built-up areas that later ended up by giving place to municipality. For it, population created a consistorial house to assemble to scattered in what then it was called The Rinconá.

Along with the Convent we find one of the most interesting remains of the population. One treats as a Mozarabic set composed by three dependencies excavated in the rock, destined to religious uses and occupied by the hermits and anchorites quoted in the Chronicles Franciscan that realize of the foundation of the Convent. I combine byline of the IXth or Xth centuries according to most of the historians.

To 1 km of Villanueva de Algaidas for the local highway that joins this village with Low Caves, the rock church is dated between the IX Xth century and belonging to the group of rural isolated churches.

They form the set two independent cavities between themselves, the biggest is the church in strict sense, which consists of three ships, and her minor is a hollow of approximately 11 square meters.

For the lovers of the Mediterranean kitchen and natural products, it is sure that it turns out to be very interesting to approach to anyone of factories of oil of the locality, in which there will explain everything to them the process of extraction of this so healthy and nourishing product as is the olive oil.

To eat and to Sleep:
Farmhouse the Census.
Telf. 952 74 40 29.
Hotel Algaidas. Telf. 952 74 33 08.
Farmhouse "The Marquess". Telf. 952 84 53 90.
Farmhouse Pantoja. Telf. 952 74 41 03.

The Guns. Specialty there are the meat cortijera and I annoy to guns. Telf. 952 74 33 08.
The Rinconá. Traditional kitchen. Telf. 952 74 50 08.
It crunches it. Telf. 952 74 33 00.
Coffee - bar Devout women. Esp. in skewer of scampi, of prawns and fish sword, octopus to the Galician and baby squids in green sauce. Telf. 952 74 34 58.

Nuclei of Villanueva de Algaidas: Parrilla-Zamarra, The Lookout, Cane, Farrier - chapel, The Albaicin