Subbetica

Santiago neighbourhood

Santiago neighbourhood

Barrio histórico con iglesia gótico-renacentista, artesanías en alfarerías tradicionales y veneración al Cristo de la Columna de Pedro Roldán.

Flores de Negrón Street leads to one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, ‘the Santiago district’, which may have been a suburb during the heyday of Jewish Lucena.

The Gothic-Renaissance parish church of Santiago was begun in 1503 and was traditionally regarded as the former Jewish synagogue, though it is possible that materials from the then recently demolished old church of San Mateo – formerly a synagogue and mosque – were reused in its construction. Today, decorated in harmony with the Mudejar style of the rest of the church, it houses the Cristo de la Columna, a work by the renowned Sevillian sculptor Pedro Roldán, created in the 17th century.

Once past the parish church of Santiago, we enter the Llano de la Tinajerías, the area where most of Lucena’s pottery and earthenware workshops were concentrated. There we can visit some of the artisan potteries, whose tradition stretches back through the ages.