Beas de Segura

Municipality of Beas de Segura
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Andalusia
Province :	Jaén
Coordinates	38 ° 15 ′ N , 2 ° 53 ′ W Coordinates: 38 ° 15 ′ N , 2 ° 53 ′ W
Height :	600 msnm
Area :	155 km²
Residents :	5,130 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	33.1 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	23280
Municipality number ( INE ):	23012
administration
Website :	www.beasdesegura.es
Location of the municipality

Beas de Segura is a Spanish municipality in the province of Jaén in the Comunidad Autónoma Andalusia . Beas de Segura had a population of 5,380 people in 2016.

Churches

In Beas de Segura (Jaén) there are four churches, as well as the Calvary, which today belongs to the municipality of Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén).

Carmelite monastery

The building is a historical monument. The 1575 by St. Teresa of Avila was the first monastery founded in what is now Andalusia. At the entrance there are two statues in honor of St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross . After it was founded, Teresa of Ávila left the community of Beas de Segura on May 18, 1575 and appointed Ana de Lobera Torres as prioress. The door is baroque from the seventeenth century, and inside is a single-nave room with a barrel vault. Abandoned between 1836 and 1899, it was badly damaged in World War II and restored in 1947.

Carmelite monastery
Statues in honor of St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross .

Parish church

The local parish church was built between 1946 and 1954 and was consecrated on November 1st, 1955 by the Bishop of Jaén, Felix Romero Menjíbar. The fresco above the main entrance shows the Assumption of Mary.

Parish church
overall view
Bell tower
Fresco above the main entrance

Cityscape

House, calle Feria

In 1975 the cityscape was embellished under Manuel Ardoy Medina, the mayor, and awarded the National Tourism Prize of Embellecimiento de Pueblos españoles . Many buildings date from the 19th century, where neo-Arab elements mix with motifs from classicism and the Renaissance.