The enormous oblong square provides an illustration of popular 16C Andalucian architecture. In addition to the lovely Baroque façade of the law courts, you can see the red brick Mudéjar tower - executed in the Arab tradition - of the 14C church.

You should visit the convent for its outstanding Baroque cloisters, where semicircular arches spring out from slim columns.

The monumental remains of the 15C Carthusian Monastery stand in lush forest vegetation. There are traces of frescoes in the cloisters. If you're taken with the place, why not have a peaceful stay in the former warden's house now converted into a hote..