Montilla

Montilla
Municipality
View of Montilla
Coat of arms
Montilla Location in Spain
Montilla Location in Andalusia
Coordinates: 37°35′12″N 4°38′19″W / 37.58667°N 4.63861°W
Country	Spain
Autonomous Community	Andalusia
Province	Córdoba
Comarca	Campiña Sur
Government
• Mayor	Rafael Llamas (PSOE)
Area
• Total	168.5 km^2 (65.1 sq mi)
Elevation(AMSL)	371 m (1,217 ft)
Population (2012)
• Total	23,836
• Density	140/km^2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (GMT +2) (UTC+2)
Postal code	14550
Area code(s)	+34 (Spain) + 957 (Córdoba)
Website	Town Hall

Montilla, a town and municipality in southern Spain, in the province of Córdoba, 32 miles south of the provincial capital, Córdoba. As of 2003, the town had a population of 23,245. The olive oil of the district is abundant and good, and it is the peculiar flavour of the pale dry light wine of Montilla that gives its name to the sherry known as Amontillado. Montilla is the largest component of the Montilla-Moriles designated wine region. The large wineries Alvear and Gran Barquero are located in Montilla, which has an annual vendimia (wine-harvest) festival. Montilla was the birthplace of "The Great Captain," Gonzalo or Gonsalvo of Córdoba (1453-1515), and contains the ruined castle of his father, Pedro Fernández de Córdoba. El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega lived thirty years in Montilla, and the future saint Juan de Ávila lived for the last fifteen years of his life in Montilla, where he is buried. Local folkloric figures are the witches "las Camachas", mentioned by Cervantes in the "Dialogue of the Dogs". The central portion of that work is set in a convent which today contains the town hall (in Spanish, " ayuntamiento).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Coordinates: 37°35′N 4°38′W / 37.583°N 4.633°W