7 reasons to fall in love with El Castillo de las Guardas

A municipality in the Sierra Morena of Seville. A mining land, a land of pastures, a land of mountains and a rich landscape that seduces all the senses when we discover it.

  • Nature in its purest form

    Nature has been generous with our town.
    Landscapes, reserves, parks, protected
    landscapes and natural monuments sculpted
    by the basins of the Guadalquivir and its tributary,
    the Guadiamar, seduce us when we enter into
    El Castillo de las Guardas.

  • History and Heritage

    It is a municipality
    unique and particularly beautiful,
    with a heritage that enriches
    the locality.

  • Active Tourism

    The most attractive activities are practised
    of the rural environment. Discover the hiking
    routes in a privileged natural area.

  • Gastronomy

    Its gastronomy is based on game and Iberian pork.
    You cannot leave without without tasting the
    gandinga, the matanza pot and the wild boar
    and its wild boar and venison stews.

  • Land of mines, land of pastures, land of mountains...

    The dehesa is the most representative landscape of the municipality, mainly occupying the slate and granite areas, on shallow, acidic soils. It is a resource of high environmental and ecological value. In El Castillo de las Guardas, the dehesa stands out as the habitat of the fighting bull, although there is also an abundance of game species such as deer, wild boar, rabbit, woodcock and partridge.

    Former mining operations are to be found in the municipality of El Castillo de las Guardas. These soils, occupied by old mining operations, constitute a characteristic and peculiar landscape.

    A few kilometres from the town centre, in its municipal district, is the El Castillo de las Guardas Reserve, one of the largest parks in Europe, where the animals live in semi-freedom and located on the land of a former mining operation.

  • Source of the⠀ Guadiamar River

    The source of the River Guadiamar is at El
    Castillo de las Guardas,
    in a low mountainous area, a category of landscape
    that accompanies the river to the tail of the
    Rio Agrio reservoir, where the river enters
    the rolling countryside.
    Along a large part of the course of the
    River Guadiamar, the whole of its banks is an
    area of recreation and public use.

  • Traditions and festivities

    Discover the festivals celebrated in El Castillo de las Guardas
    and its ten hamlets and several scattered urban centres. Three Wise Men, Day of Andalusia, Good Friday, Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgen del Rocío in the hamlet of El Cañuelo, Fiesta in honour of the Santa Cruz in the hamlet of La Aulaga, Corpus Christi, Medieval Market, Trail, Fiesta in honour of San Antonio de Padua in the hamlet of La Alcornocosa, Fiesta del Pimiento in the hamlet of El Cañuelo, Pilgrimage in honour of Ntra. Sra. de la Inmaculada in the village of Arroyo de la Plata, Fiestas in honour of Ntra. Sra. de Fátima in the village of Valdeflores, Fiestas Patronales y Romería de San Juan Bautista, Feria y Fiestas de El Castillo de las Guardas and Belén Viviente.

  • Nature in its purest form

    Nature has been generous with our town.
    Landscapes, reserves, parks, protected
    landscapes and natural monuments sculpted
    by the basins of the Guadalquivir and its tributary,
    the Guadiamar, seduce us when we enter into
    El Castillo de las Guardas.

  • History and Heritage

    It is a municipality
    unique and particularly beautiful,
    with a heritage that enriches
    the locality.

  • Active Tourism

    The most attractive activities are practised
    of the rural environment. Discover the hiking
    routes in a privileged natural area.

  • Gastronomy

    Its gastronomy is based on game and Iberian pork.
    You cannot leave without without tasting the
    gandinga, the matanza pot and the wild boar
    and its wild boar and venison stews.

  • Land of mines, land of pastures, land of mountains...

    The dehesa is the most representative landscape of the municipality, mainly occupying the slate and granite areas, on shallow, acidic soils. It is a resource of high environmental and ecological value. In El Castillo de las Guardas, the dehesa stands out as the habitat of the fighting bull, although there is also an abundance of game species such as deer, wild boar, rabbit, woodcock and partridge.

    Former mining operations are to be found in the municipality of El Castillo de las Guardas. These soils, occupied by old mining operations, constitute a characteristic and peculiar landscape.

    A few kilometres from the town centre, in its municipal district, is the El Castillo de las Guardas Reserve, one of the largest parks in Europe, where the animals live in semi-freedom and located on the land of a former mining operation.

  • Source of the⠀ Guadiamar River

    The source of the River Guadiamar is at El
    Castillo de las Guardas,
    in a low mountainous area, a category of landscape
    that accompanies the river to the tail of the
    Rio Agrio reservoir, where the river enters
    the rolling countryside.
    Along a large part of the course of the
    River Guadiamar, the whole of its banks is an
    area of recreation and public use.

  • Traditions and festivities

    Discover the festivals celebrated in El Castillo de las Guardas
    and its ten hamlets and several scattered urban centres. Three Wise Men, Day of Andalusia, Good Friday, Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgen del Rocío in the hamlet of El Cañuelo, Fiesta in honour of the Santa Cruz in the hamlet of La Aulaga, Corpus Christi, Medieval Market, Trail, Fiesta in honour of San Antonio de Padua in the hamlet of La Alcornocosa, Fiesta del Pimiento in the hamlet of El Cañuelo, Pilgrimage in honour of Ntra. Sra. de la Inmaculada in the village of Arroyo de la Plata, Fiestas in honour of Ntra. Sra. de Fátima in the village of Valdeflores, Fiestas Patronales y Romería de San Juan Bautista, Feria y Fiestas de El Castillo de las Guardas and Belén Viviente.