Jimena

MUNICIPIOS

Jaén Paraíso Interior

Municipality

Description

Jimena is a town located to the south of the province, on the north side of Sierra Mágina, in a landscape that alternates the olive groves, fruit trees and orchards with saw areas.

One reason the municipality is known for its production of figs and brewers.

In the municipal term we can distinguish two well-differentiated areas: the south-east sector of mountain orography and is included in the Natural Park of Sierra Magina; the rest of the term is a land of cultivation in which the olive monoculture predominates.

The economic activity is based on the olive tree and its processing industry, and is completed with the cultivation of the fig tree for the use of the figs and the brewers.

From its cultural heritage, the cave paintings of the Cueva de la Graja, of the schematic style, are especially noteworthy. We also have to quote the Castle that was raised in the Middle Ages and delivered in 1434 to the Order of Calatrava, and the Parish Church of Santiago el Mayor, of Gothic style, although rebuilt in 1960.

Tourist Office

Punto de información del Parque Natural de Sierra Mágina:

Castillo de Jimena. C/ Audiencia, 5
De lunes a viernes, de 9 a 14 horas.
Sábados y domingos, de 10 a 14 horas.

El Ayuntamiento de Jimena ha creado un moderno portal turístico para visibilizar los atractivos turísticos del municipio.

https://jimenaturismo.grupofortalezas.com/

Actividad subvencionada por la Diputación Provincial de Jaén. Herramientas digitales de promoción turística (ejercicio 2022)

Contact Details

953 357 001

Fax: 953 357 002

ayuntamientodejimena@gmail.com

www.jimena.es

Useful Information

Tourist area: Sierra Magina
Distance to the capital (km): 38
Altitude over sea level (m): 606
Extension (km ²): 48
Number of inhabitants: 1,675
Gentilice: Jimenates or Jimenians
Postal code: 23530

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Culture

Church of Santiago the Major. It is of three ships highlighting the central ship, and it owes its name to the day in Fernando III won Jimena to the Arabs in 1234. The initial factory of the church is gothic, with elements as significant as vegetable capitals, the pointed backbone that opens the perspective to the major chapel or the starry vault that covers it.His first roof was to move, and the first cover with a half-point bow, you were humming ruthless and wide davelas with ménsula in the key, like the strippers and the aldero piled, show Renaissance prints, which contrasts with the gothic cornice from the outside of the header. The current roofing, the three altarpieces of the header, the size of the Virgin of the Rosary and the square-floor tower, date from the reconstruction of 1960.

Hermitage of Our Lady of Remedies. It is a temple of small dimensions and harmonious architecture, plant in the form of a Latin cross and camerín for the patron, was built in 1910.

Castle. Su tower of tribute, the only thing preserved in its integrity, recalls the medieval importance of this castle to strengthen with that of Bedmar, the border line. It appears with the shields that evoke the power of the Marquis de Camarasa, successors of the family of the Cobos, to whom Charles I gave the castle expropriating it to the Order of Calatrava. It has been declared Good of Cultural Interest in 1985.

Cave of the Graja. It's a shallow coat with rock paintings in which up to seven groups of figures belonging to the schematic style have been located, with red tones. It is attributed to Neolithic period, III millennium BC

Nature

Jimena is located in the centre of the province of Jaén, with an area of 48.04 km ² and an average altitude of 774 m above sea level. It is located at north-west of the region of Sierra Mágina, whose southeast portion is of mountain orography and included in the Natural Park of Sierra Magina. The rest of the territory is the land in which it predominates the olive tree.

The economy is based on olive cultivation and in the processing industry, being completed with the cultivation of the fig tree to use the Breva and the fig.

So that we can get an idea of the scale of brewery production that is harvested, we will say that in 2013 they were collected About 60,000 kg of brews. Of all production, approximately 10% is distributed in the province of Jaén, 25% reach the markets of Andalusia and the challenge is exported to Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.

In its near environment has the following heights and peaks: Aznaitin (1794 m.), Air Caves (1364 m) and Atalaya (760 m)

As regards its vegetation It is common for the oak trees, whimsical, carrasco pine and salgareño, apart from the olive tree as the emblematic tree of the municipality.

In the municipality of Jimena la fauna is very diverse, among many, species as emblematic as the grubb, brown chotocabra, perdicera eagle, seedling eagle, cappuccino herryillo, pelegrin hawk, roquer plane, pale aguilucho or rastro gavilan, royal eagle or flow eagle, royal owl, common badger, fox, boar, gineet or musk cat, goo, deer, staircase, creek, viperine...

One of the best alternatives to get good views of the municipality is to approach one of the various areas in the environment, among the most visited are:

Mount Aznaitín. It's a real landscape milestone. It is one of the most significant landscape units in the Natural Park of Sierra Magina. The panoramic views that are seen are really spectacular. It is only 6 km away. of the town.

Pinar del Lancar. It is an indigenous pine of great value due to its testimonial character as a typical species of the Mediterranean forest. 5 km. of the urban core of Jimena.

Parties and Events

In addition to the traditional Christmas and Easter holidays, in the municipality of Jimena these other days are commemorated:

"Lumbres" of Saint Lucia, on December 13. On the eve of the day, there are fires on which rosets of corn and wine are eaten, accompanied by songs and dances.

San Marcos, March 25. The saint is honored, as is done in many other municipalities of Sierra Mágina, thanking him for having delivered the people from a plague of locusts that threatened their crops to rise.

Corpus Christi. Since the 16th century, there has been a record that the "Maroon bull.", better known as "Thin bull.", forerunner of the current "bull of fire" of the patron parties.

Day of the Cross, May 3. A party with a religious part which consists of the procession to the fields of Our Father Jesus on the Cross. And another pagan part the "Guys of Rice", which are dolls made of old clothes filled with paper, which have a pot or a mud pot as their head, and which in jetty positions are placed on the streets of the village with signs in which some event in the village is referred to in a tone of lance. They'll end up being the target of a claw or a burn.

Party in honor of Our Lady of Remedies. They are held from 7 to 10 September. On September 7, the image is brought from his hermitage to Jimena, where he will remain until the 10th, and on this day he will be taken back to his the sanctuary of CanavaAt the foot of the saw.

As a colophone of the parties they will run to several "fire bulls", metal artifacts that are placed on the back of the carriers and are releasing sparks, flares and "raceous rockets" causing the consequent jolgorium among the spectators.

Gastronomy

The Jimena brewers have been famous since then, which in addition to being an important complement to the local economy, are also reflected in some dishes of gastronomy.

Among the most traditional dishes, we highlight:

"Wheat.", is the most sharp dish of the jimenata gastronomy, and consists of a very elaborate stew where the wheat grains are previously crushed and peeled in a stone mortar and once clean the shell are soaked, for the next day to cook it with a chopped onion, a red tomato, green beans and some cod or bowls.

"Borullos.", is a farinacea vianda of wide presence in the traditional cuisine of some places of Magina, they are named "talarines"It is a broth in which vegetables and hare meat are cooked next to a mass of peeled flour.

"Morococcus"it is a dish that is not only present in the kitchens of Mágin, but also in those of La Loma. It is made with very crushed cooked chickpeasadded the broth and a generous chorreton of olive oil, some fried peppers. All this will be cooked until you get a mashed, which will sometimes be added a chopped onion.

Other dishes: the pipirrana and The papajotes.

In the pastry shop: rosses fried in the frying pan, alfajores, fig bread, brewing cheese...

History

Jimena has a rich legacy of prehistoric times, a group of rock paintings in the Cave of La Graja, which shows the existence of groups of pastors who lived between the IV and the III millennium BC in the Southern Serras.

Another settlement of this time is that of Cerro Alcalá, fundamental reference for the prehistory and ancient history of this town.

In the Iberian stage Cerro Alcalá will be one of the oppid which will remain occupied in the following centuries until Roman times.

In the Arab period there was an intense occupation of the municipal term of Jimena by small rural or rural populations.

This population had several fortifications for shelter how Source of Moro, Cerro Alcalá or San Estabin. Jimena (Xemena) could have been another of these castles or a fortified house after the conquest of Granada.

The municipality of Jimena will be conquered by Fernando III the day of Santiago of the year 1234, and integrated into the lands of the Council of Baeza. After several changes in membership, in 1434, King John II gave the municipality to the Order of Calatrava which was the commission of Torres, Canena, Jimena and the heiress of Recena.

In the 16th century, Jimena, aligned next to Baeza participated in the communal conflict in the Castile of Carlos V, and even served as a hidden reduction to communeros. And years later it was sold by Carlos V to his secretary, Francisco de los Cobos. From then on, Jimena will become the Lord of Francis of the Cobos and after his descendants. the Marquis of Camarasauntil the extinction of the lordship privileges in 1812.