What to do in Purchena – Almeria

The Church of San Ginés, is located in the street Church s/n. It was erected in the place where the old Muslim mosque was and came to replace another consecrated one from 1505, to Our Lady of the Incarnation, which probably could have been located in the hill of the Castle. Its construction began around 1550 by the architect Juan de Orea, and did not end until the immediate dates of the rebellion of the Moors. Its style is Renaissance with notorious influences of the Mudejar Granada. It consists of three naves separated by two arcades that are supported by stone columns of oval section. The Church of San Ginés, has three chapels of the eighteenth century, one dedicated to the Virgin of Carmen, another to the Dolores and another to the Rosario. Externally it is built of regular ashlars and has a square tower. The roof is a pair and knuckle armor, with double braces decorated with eight-pointed stars and alfardones, which is repeated in the guards of the two friezes and in the almizabe, which creates octagonal polygons to which are added pineapples. It has three coats of arms, the oldest is that of Fray Diego Fernández de […]

The Alcazaba de Purchena, began to be built in the year 888, by the Marines of the Federative State of Pechina, and reached its maximum splendor in the Nasrid era. The last Muslim warden of the castle, Ibrahim Abenedir, proudly defended the city, without selling it to the kings, as did others of his peers. There are hardly any remains of the Alcazaba de Purchena, in which Aben Humeya took refuge with his troops. Today there are only remains of houses, a cistern, a bath, the wall and a tower, known as Torre del Agua, which is a magnificent work of hydraulic engineering, since in its interior it has a reservoir of drinking water, which made of the town an almost impregnable place. Originally this tower had more than thirteen meters of height, but today only half of the structure is conserved, in spite of the restoration made in 1997. There are also remains of funeral constructions from the Bronze Age, almost disappeared, there are only a few vestiges. In the area called the Watchtower, in the vicinity of the town, stood a lookout tower also from the Nasrid period.