Alcalá la Real
Alcalá la Real is a small city watched over by the Fortaleza de La Mota, a well documented castillo offering a peek into past centuries. The city is small enough to walk around for a day, making it an excellent day trip from major cities like Granada, Cordoba, or Jaen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Yildori, CC BY-SA 3.0 es.
- Type: Town with 16,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Historically known as: “Aebura” and “Ebora”
- Postal code: 23680
Photo: Michelangelo-36, CC BY 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castillo de Alcalá la Real and Iglesia de la Consolación.
Castillo de Alcalá la Real
Castle
Photo: JuanFrancisco89, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castillo de Alcalá la Real is a castle in Alcala la Real, in the province of Jaén, Spain. It is a defensive enclosure, located at an elevation of 1,029 metres.
Iglesia de la Consolación
Church
Photo: El Pantera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia de la Consolación is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Charilla and Villalobos.
Charilla
Hamlet
Photo: KRLS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Charilla is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km north of Alcalá la Real.
Villalobos
Hamlet
Photo: Mangenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Villalobos is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km south of Alcalá la Real.
Alcalá la Real
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.462° or 37° 27′ 43″ northLongitude
-3.9224° or 3° 55′ 21″ westPopulation
16,800Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES AKAOpen location code
8C9RF36H+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1470837697OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Alcalá la Real” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألكالا لا ريال”
- Arabic: “القلعة الملكية”
- Aragonese: “Alcalá la Real”
- Armenian: “Ալկալա լա Ռեալ”
- Asturian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Basque: “Alcala la Real”
- Basque: “Alcalá la Real”
- Belarusian: “Алькала-ла-Рэаль”
- Breton: “Alcalá la Real”
- Catalan: “Alcalá la Real”
- Catalan: “Alcalà la Real”
- Cebuano: “Alcalá la Real”
- Chechen: “Алькала-ла-Реаль”
- Chinese: “Alcalá la Real”
- Chinese: “阿尔卡拉拉雷亚尔”
- Chinese: “阿爾卡拉拉雷亞爾”
- Chinese: “雷亚尔堡”
- Danish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Dimli (individual language): “Alcalá la Real”
- Dutch: “Alcala la Real”
- Dutch: “Alcalá la Real”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكالا لا ريال”
- Esperanto: “Alcalá la Real”
- French: “Alcala la Real”
- French: “Alcalá la Real”
- Galician: “Alcalá la Real”
- Georgian: “ალკალა-ლა-რეალი”
- German: “Alcalá la Real”
- Haitian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Hungarian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Indonesian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Interlingua: “Alcalá la Real”
- Interlingue: “Alcalá la Real”
- Irish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Italian: “Alcala la Real”
- Italian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Japanese: “アルカラ・ラ・レアル”
- Ladin: “Alcalá la Real”
- Lithuanian: “Alkala la Realas”
- Lombard: “Alcalá la Real”
- Luxembourgish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Macedonian: “Алкала ла Реал”
- Malagasy: “Alcalá la Real”
- Malay: “Alcalá la Real”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alcalá la Real”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alcalá la Real”
- Norwegian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alcalá la Real”
- Persian: “آلکالا لا رئال”
- Polish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Portuguese: “Alcalá la Real”
- Romanian: “Alcala la Real”
- Romanian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Russian: “Алькала-ла-Реаль”
- Scots: “Alcalá la Real”
- Serbian: “Алкала ла Реал”
- Silesian: “Alcalá la Real”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلکالا لا رئال”
- Spanish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Swedish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Tatar: “Алькала-ла-Реаль”
- Turkish: “Alcalá la Real”
- Ukrainian: “Алькала-ла-Реаль”
- Uzbek: “Alcala la Real”
- Uzbek: “Alcalá la Real”
- Uzbek: “Alkala la Real”
- Uzbek: “Alkala-la-Real”
- Uzbek: “Алcалá ла Реал”
- Uzbek: “Алкала-ла-Реал”
- Venetian: “Alcalá la Real”
- Vietnamese: “Alcalá la Real”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alcalá la Real”
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