Chilluévar

Nature

Located in Chilluévar, it is like looking at a balconada, in which we have protected our back with the Sierra de Las Villas, and from where we can see Sierra Magina, Sierra Nevada, the Sierra de Cazorla, as well as a large part of the jienese countryside. It is this location that defines its strategic position as part of the Cazorla Advance.

Its municipal term is a slope by which rivers, streams and springs run along the hillside to the south and south-east with the rivers of La Vega and Cañamares.

To walk through any of the signposted paths is to have the opportunity to meet with abrupt spaces, throats, limestone slices, cave formation, banks, ravines, karmic formations or large cut. In addition to the mountain pastures, we find larix pines, black pines, carrasco pines, as well as endemic species of the area.

In the vicinity of the rivers are observed riverside forests: Mimberas, willows, tarais, white chopos or black alamos.

The proximity of the saw to the lands of work, located to the south and south-east, meets the ideal conditions for the life of the Small-game cynetic fauna: rabbits, hares, foxes, partridges, quail... As well as the characteristic avifauna next to rivers, reservoirs and dams.

Without a doubt the best option to know these lands and discover life in nature, is to travel one of the close ones signposted trails of the Natural Park: Cañamares River Path, Aguascebas- Gil Cobo, Cueva del Peinero Path, Aguascebas Embalse or the Odera and Navazalto Path.

Parties and Events

In Chilluévar, in addition to the Carnival and Christmas parties, the following are also held:

• Patron party in honor of Our Lady of Peace. Along with other peoples such as Bélmez de la Moraleda or Beas de Segura, Chilluévar has the Virgin of Peace as her patron. In his honor on January 24 his feast is celebrated with a mass and the procession of his image. The most characteristic of the celebration is the colossal luminaries that rise throughout the municipality the night before, created by the neighbors with the remains of the prunes of the olive tree.

• Festivity of San Isidro. Together with Our Lady of Peace, they are the bosses of Chilluévar. On May 15, the Brotherhood of Labradores organized the celebration of this holiday in the area of the saw known as "Los Vilchetes."

• Corpus Christi. On this day the neighbors are glaring the main streets of the town with carpets and altars of flowers. The procession will go through the streets accompanied by the children who made the first communion that year.

• Fair and parties in honor of Ntra. Madam. Peace. They take place between the 3rd and 7th of September, the 4th being the day of the Virgin. In addition to religious acts, they highlight the holding of taurine acts with loops of pods that walk through the streets besieged by wooden barriers.

• Cultural Week. In the week before the September holidays the Cultural Week takes place in which the different local associations participate and they program: dances, exhibitions, plays, bowling, riding...

Gastronomy

The varied serrana cuisine is able to adapt to the wide spectrum of seasonal products, from simple mushrooms to elaborate crumbs with their cohort of companions.

Without forgetting that the town has a area of Vega and variety of vegetables obtained in the gardens put a color note in the hot summers.

The hunting meat and other viandas are processed by their meat industry to be converted into sausages.

Among the most traditional dishes are:

• Gachamas, which carry torreznos and dried peppers.

• Tallarines, mass cakes with mushrooms and hare or partridge.

• Serrana tortilla, an omelet made with a lot of chorizo.

• Trout.

• Lamb to the rosemary.

• Garlic.

• Ajoharina.

• Crow tortilla.

• Tissue. (chorizo, black and white morcilla, splatter)

In the pastry shop:

• Rice with milk.

• Sweet peas.

• Paparajotes.

• Skillet roses.

• Wine nuts.

• Butter cake.

• Lis flower.
  

History

Chilluévar seems to have its origin in a population scattered around Las Almansas, traditionally occupied since ancient times by the Romans. Known by the Arabs, since ancient times, like Al-Corai or Alcorache (El-Balcony) makes reference to its name because of the wonderful views it enjoys.

Two circumstances contributed to the flourishing of this village: on the one hand, the works promoted by the Cardinal of Toledo, Don Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada, in his desire to spread the new Christian faith on the lands conquered to the Muslims and on the other, the transfer of cattle farmers through this place, as Chilluévar became a forced step of the Mesta on the road that unites Andalusia and Levante.

In "Chilluévar la Vieja," as today is known to the primitive site, a hermitage, a hostel, a cemetery and a pool were built. Livestock, pilgrims and traders visited the hermitage, found rest in shelter and pensions, and made the cattle abound. The disappearance of the Mesta and Trashumancia meant the progressive decline and marginalization of this primitive core, but not that of the town that at the end of the 18th consecrated a new parish church in the place called "Chilluévar Nuevo," to a quarter of leagues of the ancient hermitage. In 1787 the village received the title "Villa" at the request of Cardinal Lorenzana, a title which, although it did not mean any kind of independence, supported its recognition as a core population.

From its balconate mountain, protected on the back by the Sierra de Las Villas, you can see; the Sierra de Magina, Sierra Nevada, the Sierra de Cazorla, as well as much of the countryside, which defines its strategic position as part of the "Cazorla advance." Chilluévar belonged to the municipality of La Iruela until December 14, 1926 when he became independent.