From Alcalá true right is in the south of the province of Jaén for instance at the border with Granada of Alcalá true by an extent oil-rises and the Getreidefelder surrounded, a landscape, which continues each kind downward in the Sierra Nevada in the south. The range around Alcalá is used, since the prähistorischen times and Alcalá became a much extended citadel. Alcalá was the center of many attacks by the Christians, who were to due to its surrounding position in the proximity vega fruitfully of the Granada maurisch. After the Zurückeroberung in 1492 Alcalá of the citadel could expand, and Alcalá modern began to develop. Today it is an occupied city of 21.000 inhabitants, who were given on by the extended citadel. The citadel is symbolic from Alcalá and holds themselves outside over the remainder of the city.
A flanked rigid and beautiful road of the bleached houses leads to the citadel, from which there is a great view of the surrounding country, which to snowcaps the Sierra Nevada a clear time reaches very downward. Paseo of Los Alamos is used by the people of the country for the evening and Sunday „paseo “or walk. Different fairs and markets are held on this road during the yearly. Alcalá is again-appointed for its traditional handicraft, which covers leatherwork, the embroidery and the pottery. The local celebrations include a smaller version of „fallas “, which takes place in Valencia, if fires in to 2. February rue to be ignited. More fires and fires of the trick take place on 24 June in the honour of San Juan, and on 15 August colored and impressing attendants take place, if the thousand candles are Lit. A modern city with the abundance at the permission, which covers the dwelling, is shops, bars, restaurant, libraries, schools and in a cinema screen, Alcalá on N432, which functions between Córdoba, 85km parties and Granada 47km left. Jaén is 55km in the north of Alcalá