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Porcuna

Town

Porcuna is a village and municipality in the province of Jaén in Andalusia, Spain, 42 km from Jaén and 50 km from Córdoba. The primary occupation of the 6,990 inhabitants is olive growing. The main tourist attractions are the tower of Boabdil, the Casa Piedra, the Paseo de Jesús and the various hermitages.

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One of Porcuna's famous sons is the Baroque poet Juan del Valle y Caviedes, born here around 1645, who moved to Peru at an early age and wrote biting satirical works attacking the hypocrisy of the Colonial upper class society of Lima.

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Village information

Coat of arms of Porcuna
Province
Jaén
Autonomous community
Andalucía
Population (INE 2025)
5,936
Altitude
468 m
Area (IGN)
176 km²
Postcode
23790
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What to see

  1. 1Iglesia y restos del Convento de San Benito
  2. 2Iglesia de Santa María de la Asunción
  3. 3Muralla urbana
  4. 4Torreón de Boabdil
  5. 5Recinto amurallado de los Alcores
  6. 6Torreón de la calle Niño Jesús
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What to do

  1. 1Street market
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Photo gallery

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  • Veinticuatro de Jahén · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Shai Pal · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • 8 places to stayIllustrative photo · Toprural · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Accommodation

    8 places to stay in Porcuna

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  • 4 restaurantsIllustrative photo · Grey World · CC BY 2.0

    Eat

    4 restaurants in Porcuna

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  • 1 experienceIllustrative photo · Àngela Llop · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Experiences

    1 experience in Porcuna

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Useful information

Everything you need for your visit or your day-to-day

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Town council

    • Phone: 953 54 40 04
    • Official website: www.porcuna.es
    • Email: porcuna@promojaen.es

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Travelling with your pet

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Connectivity

  • Fibre broadband· of homes97 %
  • 4G mobile coverage· of homes100 %
  • 5G coverage· of homes100 %

No data on: tourist office, train station, EV chargers, motorhomes, street market.

Data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), extract from October 2026: we count what is mapped within the municipal boundary. "No data" means OpenStreetMap doesn't have it, not that it doesn't exist. Completed with Overture Maps (CDLA-Permissive-2.0): the pharmacies, health centres, petrol stations, banks, cash machines, food shops and schools that OpenStreetMap was missing. Town hall contact details: General Database of Local Entities (Spanish Ministry of Finance); tourist offices: each region's open registry, where it publishes one. Connectivity: Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation, % of homes covered in June 2025.

Porcuna Town Hall

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Where to sleep in Porcuna

8 registered places to stay

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