7 Sights in Antequera, Spain (with Map and Images)

The Royal Collegiate Church of Santa María La Mayor is a collegiate church located in Antequera, in the province of Málaga, Spain. It was founded on the initiative of Bishop Diego Ramírez de Villaescusa, then in charge of the diocese of Malaga; who, considering the numerous neighbourhood that the city had reached, obtained from Pope Julius II in 1503 the opportune bull to erect the old Church of Santa María de la Esperanza into a Collegiate Church. Eleven years later, the same bishop ordered the construction of a new collegiate building, which he named Santa María la Mayor.

Wikipedia: Real Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor (ES)

The Roman villa of La Estación, located in Antequera, belongs to the so-called "peristyle" typology and specifically its origin dates back to the second half of the first century, detecting its abandonment at the end of the fourth century or the beginning of the fifth. It is essentially characterized by a sumptuous residential nuance, a reflection of the ideology and purchasing power of its owners, highlighting the quality of the statuary that appeared, mainly, in the area of the peristyle and directly related to the decoration of fountains and ponds.

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Tholos de El Romeral, situated 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north east of the town of Antequera (Andalusia), is one of the most important examples of early Bronze Age architecture in southern Europe. Tholos de El Romeral, also known as Cueva de Romeral and Dolmen de Romeral, is a megalithic burial site built circa 1800 BCE. It is one of three tombs in the region, the others being Dolmen de Menga and Dolmen de Viera, both situated to the south west.

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The Arch of the Giants, located in Antequera, is a construction carried out by municipal initiative in 1585 within the approaches of humanism, with the aim of replacing a bend in the access of the Muslim fence, wanting to evoke with its large semicircular span the triumphal arches of the classical world.

Wikipedia: Arco de los Gigantes (ES)

The house-palace of the Marchioness of Las Escalonias is one of the most representative examples of civil architecture in Antequera and is considered one of the best-preserved buildings with the typology of an old palatial house in Antequera from the early seventeenth century.

Wikipedia: Palacio de las Escalonias (ES)

The archaeological site of the Roman city of Singilia Barba is located northwest of Antequera, on the grounds of the Castillón farmhouse. The existence of archaeological remains in this place has been known since the sixteenth century.

Wikipedia: Singilia Barba (ES)

The archaeological site of Aratispi is located in the southern area of the port of Las Pedrizas, strategically located at a crossroads of natural routes, on the hill of Cauche el Viejo, in the municipality of Antequera.

Wikipedia: Aratispi (ES)