Castle-Palace of Zuheros

The origin of the castle is established in the ninth century by a group of Muslims, the Banu-Himsi, who settled in the vicinity of the village in an area of crags called "Sujayra". During the Caliphate of Cordoba the castle of Zuheros was within a small walled enclosure, with about 30 houses, a mosque and several towers, belonged to the Cora of Elvira and was part of one of the most important routes of this period to link the Caliphate capital (Cordoba) with the Nasrid capital (Granada). Merchants passed through it, but it was also a route of knowledge, science and the arts. Zuheros was taken in the early 1240s by the troops of Ferdinand III the Saint, supposedly on May 14, the day of St. Matthias. The mosque that was inside the wall, after some minor reforms was reformed to a temple with a nave with a column in the middle and was consecrated to Santa Maria. After the Christian conquest of the Kingdom of Granada, the fence surrounding the town was gradually dismantled. At the end of the 15th century the construction of the Renaissance Palace began, being lords of Zuheros D. Alonso and D. Juan de Cordoba, which is believed to have never been completed. In the mid-sixteenth century began to expand the parish church being attributed both constructions to Hernán Ruiz IIII. With the passage of time there is an abandonment of the castle, towers and palace leaving everything in ruins, in 1760 a clock with its bell is placed in the castle tower replaced in 1927, remaining in the tower until the decade of the 60s of the twentieth century when it is dismantled and placed on the facade of the church. In 1964 the towers that we see now were rebuilt. Schedules and rates