Access and Information
We find ourselves in the indoors of an alhorí or granary whose construction was ordered by Nicolás Fernández de Córdoba y de la Cerda, X Duke of Medinaceli and IX Marquis of Priego.
It was built in 1723 by Juan Antonio Camacho over the layout and foundations of the old castle and fortress where “El Gran Capitán”, was born. After its demolition in 1508 by order of Fernando el Católico and lost its defensive character, it became a building of agro-industrial nature. It shows a powerful factory, with a rectangular floor plan and five vaulted interior naves on the first floor and three with wooden framework on the upper floor, the latter being the ones that house the rooms of the Permanent Exhibition of the “El Gran Capitán”.
After its use as granaries of the Duchy of Medinaceli, the building became privately until it was acquired by the City Council of Montilla in 1998, when the first works of rehabilitation of the alhorí and the first excavations of the Castle began. Since then, successive adaptations inside the Alhorí and the Tahona (old palace house), as well as the different archaeological excavations carried out in the old walled enclosure, have been shaping the current morphology of this space, built on historical structures dating back to a period between the eighth century BC and the second or third century BC, making up the oldest inhabited nucleus of the town.
The Castle of Montilla has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest since 1949, in a generic way along with the rest of the castles of Spain; and as a Monument, since the approval of the Spanish Historical Heritage Law of 1985.
EXHIBITION 1st FLOOR
Exhibition route
Stage
Projection
