The city of Úbeda (approximately 35.000 inhabitants), lies at 10 km from Baeza, both the two citizens has been declared from UNESCO, in 2003, World-Heritage properties of the humanity. The historical centers of these two cities represent the first amazing example of civil architecture and city planning in Spain at the beginning of the 16th century.

Úbeda was founded from the Arabs with the name of Madinat Ubbadat Al-Arab (Úbeda de los Árabes), it was reconquered from king Ferdinand III in 1233, but the definitive development of the city only had after the fall of Granada Emirate, when thanks to some nobles of the city, as Francisco de los Cobos, secretary of the Emperor Carlos I, or Juan Vázquez de Molina, that covered high assignments in the state hierarchy, were commissioned important building works to the architect Andrés de Vandelvira. This intense building activity carried to the edification of some authentic works of art of the Spanish renaissance, Úbeda, in its historical center counts nearly fifty remarkable monuments of the renaissance.