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Huerta de la Reina, Córdoba — Area Guide & Where to Stay
A brick mill chimney stands over the Jardines Virgen de la Estrella at Huerta de la Reina, a railway-era barrio in Córdoba's Distrito Noroeste.
About Huerta de la Reina
Where to stay in Huerta de la Reina
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Huerta de la Reina keeps its hotels on Avenida de la Libertad, the wide avenue that closes the barrio to the south. Inland the streets turn to flats and shopfronts, with Calle Doña Berenguela running the length of the barrio past the Centro de Salud Huerta de la Reina. Córdoba-Julio Anguita, the city's main railway station, stands a short walk west of that corner. The Mezquita-Catedral sits about a kilometre and a half south, and AUCORSA buses cover the rest of Córdoba.
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About Huerta de la Reina
What are the main landmarks in Huerta de la Reina?
Huerta de la Reina keeps its industrial past in a single brick chimney 35 metres tall, all that survives of the Santa Victoria flour and oil works, standing in the Jardines Virgen de la Estrella between Calle Goya and Calle Pintor Mariano Belmonte. Those gardens take their name from the Hermandad de la Estrella, whose images are kept at the Parroquia de San Fernando on Calle Goya. Its penance procession falls on Lunes Santo.
Plaza de la Constancia opens off the same grid of streets, and the Centro de Magisterio Sagrado Corazón, a college attached to the Universidad de Córdoba, holds the northern tip on Avenida del Brillante.
What is the history of Huerta de la Reina?
Huerta de la Reina began in the middle of the 19th century, when the railway reached Córdoba and drew industry to the fields north of the tracks. Factory hands filled the new streets. The name comes from a historic market garden whose land the barrio covers.
The same line then cut the barrio off from the centre for close to a century. Complaints began three years after the first train, and sixty-one years passed before the Pretorio viaduct crossed the rails. Rodríguez Hermanos milled flour and refined oil here into the 1980s, and the Santa Victoria plant came down at the end of the 1990s.
The works had their own siding.
Where is Huerta de la Reina?
Huerta de la Reina fills the wedge between Avenida de la Libertad and Avenida del Brillante, with Avenida del Tenor Pedro Lavirgen west and Moreras beyond it.
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Updated September 2026