ALCALA LA REAL, a city of Andalucía in Spain, 18 miles S.W. of Jaén. It stands between two mountain ridges, at an elevation of about 3000 feet above the sea. It has a fine abbey, two parish churches, and two convents, and a population chiefly agricultural, of about 7000. Alonso de Alcalá, a celebrated physician and jurist of the sixteenth century, was born here. In 1810 the Spaniards were defeated here by the French.