Monturque, Córdoba. España

Existing in Moslem time, the Castle of Monturque was conquered by Fernando III the Saint in the year 1240 and from then there were periods in which it belonged to the crown and others to the nobility, of which there is early record in 1273, when half Of the tower of Monturque was granted by Martin Sánchez, adalid, and his wife, Dona Munia, to his grandson Lope.Formó part of señorío of Aguilar from 1377, in that was given by Enrique II to gift Gonzalo Fernandez of Cordova, what Was the linkage to this family for centuries. The historical references to know the origin of the fort are very scarce, but already al-Isidri affirmed that it constituted a hins or habitat fortified in height. Later, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the name of the population is often associated with the term Castle or Tower, so that the human presence in Monturque should have been reduced to its important Castle until at the end of the 16th century it begins to be cited Like villa or place.

In the highest part of the town, not far from the castle and adjacent to the municipal cemetery, there is the most important and old religious building currently owned by the village of Monturque: Parish of San Mateo, a simple Gothic- Mudejar, whose construction seems to correspond to the last years of the fifteenth or early sixteenth century.