Sites of interest

Walking through the town, visiting archaeological sites or playing outdoor sports are some of the many activities that can be done in Antas.

Antas has 5 historical monuments and 3 archaeological sites.

Monuments

Cerro de la Torre

Also called Torre de la Ballabona.

It was built during the Muslim period. It is currently in ruins, preserving only its tower. The complex has been catalogued as an asset of cultural interest in the monument category.

Royal Aqueduct

"El Real Hydraulic Complex".

Built around 1915, it consisted of a hydraulic installation, with a motor well, powered first by coal and later by electric energy. Housed in the building known as "the factory" and smoke chimney (now disappeared). It supplied water from a pond for private gardens and local consumption of the neighborhood.

Parish Church

Also known as the Church of Santa Maria de la Cabeza.

Erected in the 16th century, specifically in 1505. It is a simple building, without much exterior ornamentation, where the tower of the temple stands out.

Virgen de la Cabeza Chapel

Located on the Cabezo María hill.

It is a rectangular building with attached volumes on three sides. In one of them there is a portico supported by four semicircular arches. The entrance is preceded by a semicircular arch. The date of construction is unknown but dates from beyond the 18th century.

Hermitage of the threshing floor of the Lugar

Building constructed in 1943.

In the place where the Virgen de la Cabeza was venerated, with the intention of sheltering it from the weather, on September 7 the image of the Virgin is moved from the Cabezo de María to this hermitage.

Archaeological sites

El Argar and La Gerundia

The archaeological zone of El Argar and La Gerundia comprises two sites in the province, which are located on two hills on the left bank of the Antas River separated by a small valley, which justifies their declaration as a single archaeological zone.

Despite the differences in the archaeological record, the settlement’s housing pattern can be sketched. These are houses with longitudinal head walls, separated by perpendicular party walls. In addition to this type of rectangular room, there are also those with an irregular floor plan and even those with a circular tendency. The walls are generally straight, built with well-squared stones, and are interlocked with earth.

The Garcel

It dates from the Early Copper Age. In addition to remains of post hole huts and circular hearths, silos and copper smelting slag, the oldest olive pits in the Iberian Peninsula have been found.

The Garcel

It dates from the Early Copper Age. In addition to remains of post hole huts and circular hearths, silos and copper smelting slag, the oldest olive pits in the Iberian Peninsula have been found.

Lugarico Viejo

It is located on the right bank of the Antas River, near the Jauro neighborhood. It is a fortified settlement of the Bronze Age that housed a set of huts and burials. Although its altitude is not high (212 m above sea level), its particular orography and its relationship with the environment make it a place of undoubted strategic value. Outside, burial areas have been discovered, always coinciding with the patterns of the Bronze Age in the southeast of the peninsula.