Plaza General Castaños (El paseo)

Here is where there once was, if not the most well-known, one of the most famous post houses in Spain. A continuous hustle and bustle of carriages would pass through here, given that this was an essential route along the Camino Real towards the Kingdom’s Capital, providing Bailén with a privileged what we could call […]

Casa de la Cultura (House of Culture)

This house from the 19th century is located in what was once the ‘Camino de Jaén’; one of the main gateways to the town, specifically the general Madrid-Cádiz road, which linked with the ancient Castle of Bailén. Forming part of what is now a tradition in the town, the road where this building is situated […]

Communicating pitchers

Located this mural in the Seville Street, we are shown the emblem of the figure of María Bellido and her broken pitcher, together with the use of ceramic containers since Roman times to achieve the balance of liquids contained in communicating vessels, is represented in this project. Atmospheric pressure and gravity are constant in each […]

Ceramics and education

This artistic piece reflects the experiences, coexistence and first-hand knowledge of some of the last pottery artisans of Bailén, linked to the intrinsic history of the wall where, in this case, the west façade of the Sacred Heart of Jesus School is located, where since the beginning of the last century, when the Daughters of […]

Bailen’s surrender

The General Castaños Square as the nerve center, social and meeting place of the city is the space chosen for this mural. The Casado del Alisal painting, a pictorial emblem of the municipality and reinterpreted based on the physical perception of color, represented in 2017 the bringing together of urban art and the social communication […]

Reforesting

This project by Doa Ocampo is located at the back of the Monument of the Battle of Bailén that is also located in the Palm Trees’ Promenade, which was born with desire to recover spaces through plant themes related to the environment where they are located. Five species are chosen: the olive tree, the wild […]

Forest of neurons

We find this work of art behind the Monument to the Battle of Bailén on the Palm Trees’ Promenade, we are shown the impenetrable neuronal forest that is so complex that there is not even a consensus on the number of different types of pyramidal cells that exist. This artistic intervention manages to recover the […]