Puente Genil
A town located in the south east of the province, on the border with the province of Seville. Its municipal areas of interest lie within its boundaries: Tiscar Lagoon, declared a Nature Reserve, and Cordobilla Reservoir Beauty Spot; both are part of the wet zones of the south Cordoba, which are of great importance in terms of the birdlife which congregates within them.
The town is the result of the 1834 unification of two villages separated by the river: Miragenil, which once belonged to Seville, and La Puente de Don Gonzalo. Puente Genil is therefore inexorably linked to the river, to which it owes its very existence. Most of the town is built on the river banks and consists of noble houses and traditional, well-preserved dwellings which stretch as far as the modern districts located in the upper part of the town. The Easter fraternities and associations march throughout Puente Genil during a most splendid and unusual version of Holy Week.
