Torrecampo: a granite village of Los Pedroches

High on the granite plateau and oak pastures of Los Pedroches, in the far north of the province of Cordoba, Torrecampo is a quiet white village of around 1,200 people. For centuries it was an obligatory halt on the royal road between Cordoba and the court, a past that has left it with a surprising store of heritage.

The Posada del Moro

The village's chief treasure is the Posada del Moro, a 15th-century former inn with a Renaissance granite doorway, now a museum holding a collection of more than twelve thousand objects gathered over a lifetime: archaeological finds, mining tools, paintings, sculptures and household pieces that tell the story of Torrecampo and the whole comarca, including reused Umayyad and Visigothic capitals.

Stone, faith and dehesa

Around the village stand the Gothic-Mudejar church of San Sebastian and granite-fronted houses such as the Casa de la Inquisicion, while the ruined castle of Almogabar lies in the countryside nearby. The patron, the Virgin of Las Veredas, is honoured each spring with a great pilgrimage, and local tables serve dehesa fare washed down with the summer drink melocotonada.

Getting there

Torrecampo is around a hundred kilometres north of Cordoba, amid the dehesas of Los Pedroches near the border with Castile-La Mancha.