This park, which is made up of one of the largest cork oak forests in Europe, extends around the town of Jimena de la Frontera. The cork is harvested according to a process that has remained unchanged since the forest was first worked commercially in..

The Information Centre of the Alcornocales Nature Reserve occupies the simple 15C Gothic church with a single nave that was restored with great care. It was the first church built after the reconquest of the town by the Catholics.

Overlooking the village, the castle fortress stands on the banks of San Cristóbal, probably the former site of the Roman town of Oba. The current building, of Moslem origin, dates back to the 13C. You enter by the double archway on the large flanking..