Tourist Office
Punto de información en Torredelcampo Jaén
Patronato de Cultura, Quinto Centenario, s/n
Teléfono 953 568 649
Description
Torredelcampo is a municipality that is located located 11 km. to the northwest of the capital of province. Posee a characteristic landscape in which they contrast the smooth and moist forms of the countryside with the abrupt and accidental reliefs of the saw. It has an extension of 182 km2, with an average altitude of 640 m. over the sea level and presents the typical landscape of the countryside, splashed with the typical Andalusian cortijos.
Its strategic geographical location, on the edge of the A-316 motorwaywhich connects Jaén, Córdoba, Madrid and Granada, gives it a decisive role in economic and social development of the region. In primary sector, the cultivation of the olive tree stands out, being among the first ten municipalities of the province in the production of oil olive. The 90% of surface of the municipality is cultivated.
The polygon of "The Llanos" welcomes important industries of computer technology, clothing, mechanics, wood, upholstery, ferralla... The construction sector is the one that gives occupation to many torrecampeños who move daily to Jaén to work.
The Services sector, trade, bars, restaurants, transport, education, health... reach to 47 per cent of the occupied population.
Many families in the municipality have spent years in the holiday sector. Tradition that has passed from parents to children. The town is characterized because much of the population is dedicated to this trade
From an agricultural point of view, olive crops are an important income injection for family economies.
Torredelfield now has extraordinary prospects for further progress in the future.
It has two pedanias: Garciez and Megatín.
In his monumental heritage We have to highlight: Parish de San Bartolomé, Ermita de Santa Ana, Castillo del Berrueco, Torre de la Muña, Torre Forgotten and the Torre de la Aldehuela.
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Culture
- Cerro Miguelico. On the surface of an old oppídum and taking advantage of a cyclopeia wall (9th and X century), a plateau that would be the germ of the present town of Torredelcampo is consolidated. On its west side, a cyclopoeia wall and in the south-east is still preserved a Visigoda necropolis. On the east side is the hermitage of Santa Ana.
- Church of San Bartolomé. It responds to a medieval project, still visible in the sacristy and major altar. Most of its current configuration takes place in the 16th century, involving the architects, Francisco del Castillo "El Viejo" and Francisco Castillo "El Mozo." In its bell tower is located the shield belonging to the bishop of the Diocese of Jaén. Inside it houses the Christ of the Vera Cross (16th century).
The municipality of Torredelcampo has an ancient architectural heritage, highlighting the following enclaves, which belong to the Archaeological route of the Torreones (bike route).
- Berrueco Castle. It is located next to an old road crossing (Jaén-Arjona-Martos) of high strategic value, as attested by the settlement of Cerro San Antón. The fortress is built on a rocky exit, structured in two spaces, of which the upper one is delimited by two circular towers and one of a square floor, all with internal dependencies.
- Torre de la Muña. Located at the top of a small ameseado, it is defined as a fortification under medieval (XIV-XV century), several wall canvases and a magnificent square-floor tower, built in masonry and structure in two rooms covered with pointed vaults.
- Tower of La Aldehuela. Square floor fortification, structured on two floors covered with pointed vault. The remains of a hydraulic system used for field irrigation can still be seen next to them.
- Forgotten Tower. It is located on an Ibero-Roman settlement and next to the road from Jaén to Arjona. It is believed to date from the second half of the 13th century. It was built in the Andalusian era and reformed after its conquest by the Spanish. It has a cylindrical shape, 8 m in diameter and has a height of about 7 m., with a door located several meters from the level of the ground. It has breathtaking panoramic views, oak and complaint sketches, fountains and venerations at every step, as well as a large number of animal species, which make the mountain saw a small ecological paradise.
Nature
The flora of the term is dominated by olive, located in a large percentage of the land of the municipality. It also exists indigenous vegetation of the Mediterranean forest in the mountain areas, where we see species such as: the oak, coscoja, white jara, cornicabra, complaining and abundant number of aromatic plants such as lavender, rosemary or thyme.
The fauna is mostly made up of animals of medium or small size. The large vertebrate fauna associated with forests and bushes is currently very little due to the agricultural transformation and persecution of many species. The great Iberian mammals: the bear, the wolf and the lince... disappeared. Other species of great natural value such as the royal eagle or the royal owl They still have some couples.
In addition to invertebrates, small fauna is particularly interesting. Insectivorous birdsthe ecological role they play. Birds like look at it, the zorzal, the red petrored, the curled... play a very important role in insect control to avoid possible harmful pests.
For nature lovers, Torredelfield offers various natural resources to make routes, tour theGreen Oil Way or close to the natural space of the Bañizuela, offers unparalleled views of the landscape of the countryside and the surrounding mountains.
Green Oil Way. It is presented as a new and attractive offer of interior tourism based on the use and recovery of the old Jaén - Campo Real (Córdoba) railway as a green corridor, ideal for the practice of cycling, hiking and other sports in contact with nature. Built between 1882 and 1893, this railway belongs to the line Linar- Puente Genil, and was dedicated for much of the 20th century to the transport of different metals from the mines of Liares and especially from the abundant olive oil produced in the region. It was finally closed in 1985, to passengers and goods. It was commonly called "Oil Train." The tour begins in the sports "Las Fuentezuelas" of the jienese capital, continues by Torredelcampo, Torredonjimeno, Martos and concludes the jienese part of the Green Route, on the great iron bridge over the Guadaljoz River, right in the tail of the Vadomojón swamp, in the municipal term of Alcaudete.
- Bañizuela Forest.This Natural Monument has the interest of being an island forest of a Mediterranean character and of a small extension which, although located in a dry climate, has a large number of species of unique beauty: up to 22 trees and 15 types of mushrooms of subhumid climates, presenting botanical specimens of great antiquity. Surrounded by olive trees, it is characterized by the presence of complaints and underwoods made up of durillo, slime, coscoja, yellow jasmine, madreselva... and the interesting legume called "spindles." There are examples of arrayan or myrtle, usually of arbustive bearing, but this one we find in the Forest of Bañizuela stands out precisely for its large size and the thickness of its trunk, more specific to a tree than to a bush. Located very close to the urban core of Torredelcampo, to the west of Jaén capital, it presents small witnesses of gallery forest, such as the Barranco Megatín, where there are chopos.
Parties and Events
Another reason to stop at Torredelfield are their multiple and colorful parties:
- Romeria de Santa Ana. It is celebrated on the first Sunday of May, and is considered one of the most fun and frequented romaneries in the province. This day almost all the people meet in Cerro Miguelico, where the hermitage that houses the patron is located. A spraying mass is held and the patron is processed on the hill. It is declared a National Tourist Interest Party.
- The Fair in honor of Santa Ana and the Virgin Girl. It is celebrated around July 26, and in it the fun and the musical performances of quality are guaranteed. The image of Santa Ana and the Virgin Girl is lowered in the Rosary of the Aurora to the church of San Bartolomé, after the ninth, the Virgin Girl is exposed in a besieged devotee.
Other celebrations include:
- The night of the crumbs, is a celebration that is framed later than the San Antónwhich is January 17 and coincides with the end of the pruning of olive trees and branches, in which they are made "lumbres" in the streets. In Lthe night of the crumbs,groups of friends and families gather to make crumbs in the bonfires, among the participants a draw is made, usually the prize is a cochinillo that gives away the City of Torredelcampo. Fun and entertainment are guaranteed.
Gastronomy
The Torredelfield cuisine has top quality ingredients: virgin olive oil, orchard products and game meat (gamo, corzo, hare, perdiz, rabbit...), among the most traditional:
- Chickpeas, especially of Easter. They can carry acergas, spinach, muffins...
- Potato tabletThey can bring lamb, kid, rabbit, hare... For these places, given the orography, the caprine cattle are better adapted than the sheep.
- Migas and gachas. They argue that the crumbs are made with bread and the gaches are made with flour. It was the breakfast of the quadrillas on the long days of the olive collection. They were added, grapes, chorizo, morcilla, eggs, cod... As far as possible.
- Rhinestones, calandrajos and tallarines. They are made with a fine mass of flour, and may be hare or cod.
- Other: chorizos, morcillas and "angellos" (this name is given the mass of meat before it is infused). The area has good meat industries and make chorizos, salchichon with the meat of game animalsthat give it a very particular taste.
Pipirrana:tomato, green pepper, onion, garlic, canned tuna and hard egg. Add extra virgin olive oil and salt produced and produced in the local
In pastry: mantecados, pestiños, almond sweets, bread rosches, with and without wine, pebbles, biscuits, canutilos, mazapans, alfajores, ajonjolí...
History
The first signs of human occupation on torrecampeña lands go back to Calcolytic, according to the findings found in deposits near the municipality.
Although the most important date from the Iberian periodin particular the Cerro Villarfato (Cerro del Pintado), being a network of fortified settlements called "oppidum."
During Roman occupation the Iberian population scheme, with an abundant number of agricultural centressome of them considered villae, like the one in La Muña, Forgotten Tower, Cerro de San Anton, La Divina. The set would be complemented by towers or defensive settlements (Turres) from which one example is preserved in the New Cortijo.
The origin of the present municipality would be very related to the former inhabitants of the Iberian oppidum of Cerro Miguelico. A settlement that, after a deep crisis, is abandoned in the first and second centuries of the century, moving the population to the north-west slope and to the current Torredelcampo site, establishing small settlements aimed at the agricultural exploitation of the irrigated area (gardens).
This situation continues until the final settlement of Muslims in the eighth century. During the Omeya Caliphate (10th century) the current term is attached to two of the main fiscal districts, the Aqalim de Martus (Martos) and Yayyan (Jaén).
This small village, along with others, is consolidated and fortified during the Almohade period, due to the proximity of the border with the Christian territories.
After the conquest by Fernando III "el Santo," is integrated into the realingo territories under the jurisdiction of Jaén.
Once the border with the kingdom of Granada has been disconnected, at the end of the 15th century, some municipalities begin the procedures to segregate themselves from the domain of the great councils.
It will be the case of Torredelcamp, which is bound by the Chancellery of the Catholic Kings to remain under the jurisdiction of Jaén.
The segregation disputes would continue until the 10 June 1804, date on which it is finally segregated, obtaining the title of Villa by Charles IV.
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