Region
After the Christian conquest began in the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche a process of restocking of people came mostly from Asturias, León and Castile, and a reorganization of the territory in which the Christian religion has a fundamental role. It will, therefore, from the thirteenth century when the first start to build temples that would become the center of life of rural populations. A great number of churches throughout the region and some of them are declared of Benefit cultural interest.
The oldest churches of the thirteenth century, are romantic in style, simple buildings with transverse arches reflecting a marked influence Castilian-Leonese. In the fourteenth and fifteenth develops late Gothic-Mudejar style or Seville, as it bases itself on the cathedral of that city. Temples are three naves, the central wider, with polygonal presbytery chapels located in the back and covered with ribbed vaults. In this style are the churches of Aroche Hinojales, Cala, Santa Olalla del Cala, Puerto Moral Cortelazor, Corteconcepción, Aracena, Almonaster la Real, Arroyomolinos de Leon, Cumbres de San Bartolome, Canaveral de Leon and La Nava, the latter two of a single body.
In the second half of the sixteenth century Renaissance style appears in living plant churches, support columns and ribbed vaults. So are the churches of Encinasola Cumbres Mayores, Cortegana, Castaño del Robledo, Aracena and Zufre. The Baroque style was developed in the region after 1755. After the Lisbon earthquake many temples were damaged. Some were restored and others were built from scratch. It is a baroque style that tends toward the academic. So are the churches of Jabugo, Alajar Fuenteheridos, Santa Ana la Real, Valdelarco, Linares de la Sierra, Marines, and Aracena Cumbres de Enmedio. Finally, since the nineteenth century is the church of Rosal de la Frontera.
