Guarromán

Nature

Located on a plateau and bordered by the river valleys Guarrizas y Rumblarin Guarroman the area of uncultivated land and which forms pastures with oaks, Mediterranean bushes and repopulation forest species.

If we lie in the villages of Zocueca or El Altico, both at the foot of Sierra Morena, we can observe the most steep slopes of the saw, as well as the valley that forms the Rumblar river, tributary of the Guadalquivir, and the reservoir that bears the same name. Thanks to the water of this river and to those of the reservoir the orchard of Saint Vincent, true hortelan pantry of the region is watered.

The vegetation in the municipal term is very varied, predominating the oaks, olive groves, complaints, Mediterranean bushes, pines, and other tree species of repopulation. By the river Rumblar we will find the vegetation of riverside, alamos, willows, mimberas...

Abundant and varied is also its fauna, and here we will find boars, corzos, go, hares, rabbits, badges... It is very easy to observe the majestic flights of the rapacious birds that nest in the areas of the rocky. An extensive area of soft slopes between Sierra Morena and the valleys that form the rivers of the area.

Parties and Events

The traditions for a people are a sign of identity, and a reason for the return of the Guaromans living outside the town. Among the main festive events are the following:

• Commemorative Feast of the Fuero of 1767. The next weekend to October 26, the day of the birth of the first Guarromanense, the "Festivals of the Fuero" are held, to commemorate the promulgation of it in 1767. During that weekend, Guarromanos, which are tied with the clothing of their ancestors, can enjoy different activities, such as traditional games, musical performances, tasting of typical dishes, signing of luck or walking and buying in the traditional market full of jobs with artisanal products. To highlight the theatrical route in which the neighbors tell the history of the municipality.

• Romeria de San Isidro. The most near Sunday to May 15 is the San Isidro Romeria in the dehesa "Rock Stone," a beautiful place located next to the river Guadiel. This day, carrots are made of agricultural trailers and the cavalry is made.

• Festival of the Olivarwhich is celebrated in July, around the day of Santiago. This feast is not under the title of any saint, but is dedicated to the emblematic tree of agricultural activity: the olive tree. There are many activities organized for this day, in which popular verbenas are also programmed.

• EggsThe Holy Week, which has five hermandades in Guarromán that process through its streets, has its festive outpost on Easter Sunday, when the Guarromans celebrate in a family party and campera the "Pintaoclos," tradition brought by German settlers to decorate eggs cooked with vivid colors and drawings, which are then to end up being part of a pyrran of peppers, with black olives and a lot of olive oil.

• Heart of Jesuswhich takes place in the eighth of Corpus Christi, is the pattern of the town, and to whom a special devotion is professed, immortalized in the monument that in 1950 was erected on the central promenade of Guarroman.

• Immaculate Conception: On December 8, what is popularly known as the "Day of Pure," the Immaculate Conception, patron of Guarroman, is celebrated by the express desire of Charles III.

• Festivals in the villages: the villages that belong to the City of Guarroman also celebrate their patron parties. So, San Isidro is held in Martín Malothe oldest in Guarroman; San Antonio in the Village of the Riosand Our Lady of Zocueca, patron of Bailén, in which he was the former population of Rumble, annexed to Guarroman in the early 19th century.

Gastronomy

Guarromanense cuisine is based on the use of natural and land products, such as triguero asparagus, peppers, eggs, rabbit or hare.
Among the most traditional dishes are:

• Pipirrana or egg paint. The orchards of the Guadiel River, and the new greenhouse crops, provide the red peppers that, once roasted by the olive oil and black olives, will be the basis of the "piirrana," in which the eggs painted on the Sunday of Resurrection will be finished.

• Harapos, so called by the broken fabric aspect of the mass, and are made with hare and perfumed with mint.

• Wild kitchen. The proximity to Sierra Morena provides the so-called kitchen "stone asparagus" of exquisite bitter taste, which are usually taken in tortilla or accompanied by a "rice with hare," dish that introduces us in the kitchen of the hunters.

But Guarroman's best known product is its Tin cakes, which are still being developed in the traditional wood kilns. Of these pastries we have two modalities: Blonde pastrieswhere the peel is filled with angel's hair, and the white pastries, called by the white layer of sugar that covers the tin, the biscuit and the cream from which they are made, and which are also known as "Germans," a name that refers to the origin of the settlers who founded this real population...

Guarroman is home to the prestigious gastronomic society of the Very Illustrous and Noble Order of the Knights of the Knife of Palo, which has its origins in the 18th century and which defends the Culture of the Olive. Every year in January, for the festivity of San Antón, he gives his increasingly appreciated "stick spoons" to relevant personalities from the world of culture, society and politics.

History

Guarroman was founded as part of the Sierra Morena colonization project that contemplated the Population Force of 1767, promulgated by Charles III.

It was Pablo Olavide who founded it with the name Muzquia, in the place that occupied the Sale of Guadalroman. Its first settlers were mostly German settlers. In the first documents of the foundation it is called Real Population of the Site of Guarroman. The name is believed to be the result of the castellanization of Arabic Uadi-r-Romman (river or stream of the pomegranates), which evolved phonetically to Guadalroman and later to Guarroman, now known as Tamujoso.

But those farmers would not be the only ones to give life to this land or to this people. Almost a century later, in 1861, under the protection of the resurgence of the lead and silver mines of Sierra Morena, they began to reach Guarroman miners from Almería, mainly, and from the lower Alpujarra of Granada, which together with the descendants of the German settlers ended up setting up the one that is today Guarroman.

A village open to an innovative agriculture of under-cover cultivation and to an industrial and service projection around the real road, today the A-IV motorway, former National IV.

Other information

A peculiar name.

The first peculiarity that Guarroman exhibits is his own name, which, in whom he first hears it, provokes the outline of a smile without malice and the most strange evocations about its meaning.

But for the Guarromanans, far from hiding the name, they exhibit it as their first flag, to such a extent that it is Guarroman the headquarters of the International Association of Peoples with Faithful Names, Rare and Peculiar, in which it is studied and promoted that all the good and interesting that is hidden behind a shocking name is known.