A recently restored Moorish fortress, standing on Roman foundations, introduces visitors to the fine medieval quarter which is called Barrio de la Villa. Impeccably whitewashed buildings line its narrow streets and flower-decked squares.
Paseo Colombia leads to the Adarve, a long promenade with excellent views of the surrounding countryside, the nearby Iglesia de la Asuncion is an outstanding structure. Originally Gothic in style, it was converted to a Baroque church by Jeronimo Sanchez de Rueda in the 18th century. Its piece de resistance is the sacristy chapel, created in 1784 by local artist Francisco Javier Peclrajas. Its sumptuous ornamentation in the form of sculpted figures and plaster scrolls and cornices can be a overwhelming. The main altar is in Plateresque style .
The Iglesia de la Aurora is another fine Baroque building. At midnight every Saturday the cloaked brotherhood, Nuestra Senora de la Aurora, parades the streets singing songs to the Virgin and collecting alms. Silk merchants built many of the imposing mansions that follow the curve around the Calle del Rio, Niceto Alcalá Zamora was born at number 33 in 1877. A brilliant orator, he became Spain's president in 1931, but was forced into exile during the Civil War. Today this building is the tourist office.
At the end of the street is the Fuente del Rey, or King's Fountain. This is a Baroque extravaganza, with three pools, 139 spouts gushing water, and includes Neptune among its exuberant statuary.
May is one of the liveliest months to visit Priego. Every Sunday a procession celebrates the town's deliverance from a plague which devastated the population centuries ago
The oldest archaeological remains documented in Alcaudete make reference to the localization of some stations in the Sierra hillsides of it Ballasts It and Hill Buckthorn and in the terraces of the rivers San Juan and Salted, where sílex materials were located in abundance, with total absence of ceramic materials, what attributed these places to a moment of the paleolithic superior or of transition toward the neolithic age.
After the Muslim occupation, there took place an abandonment of the areas that traditionally had been occupied by the population hispanorromana and hispanovisigoda, transferring their housings around the strength of "to the - Qabdaq", since from the new location, it was easy for the population's defense and the exhaustive control of the communication road that unites Córdoba with Granada, in a context of convulsions characteristic of a border area.
After the conquest of Granada, starting from the XVI century, and thr fruits of the economic peacefulness that transformed Alcaudete into the fifth municipality of the county, the population increased spectacularly and then began to slowly move to the modern plan, being developed the current city-planning layout.