Castañar de Ibor

 

 

Surface term (km2.): 149 

Altitude: 773

Population: 1,182 inhabitants

 

He distinguishes to Castañar de Ibor his popular, well-known architecture in all the region.

Over everything Grotto emphasizes its famous denominated cave "de la Cruz" where stalactite formation and estalagmitas have been nailed gorgeous and a beautiful inner lake, everything ésto throughout about 2,300 m.s was discovered in 1967 and declared Natural Monument offering to the visitor at the moment the possibility of being able to visit it with guides, and in reduced groups and to know more details the same one in its Center of Interpretation.

The small urban helmet chestnut seller,nailed in the slope of a hill and characterized by narrow streets with a strong slope cannot be happened through stop colorful of.
 

In the elevated part more of the population is the parochial church of San Benito, constructed in s. XVI with rubblework, of a single ship covered with wood structure.

On the Ibor river it has one of the more beautiful natural swimming pools of the zone.

Megalíticos rest exist in the municipality, as the Gambete or the Three Landmarks dolmen of. Also they appear constructions that date from the Arab domination, like the Tower of the Moors, in the environs of the Ibor River.