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The overwhelming environment of desolation in the village of Los Goldines, easily accessible and located in a very beautiful place, helps us to intubate the terrible drama that many serrans suffered and still remember. It was the result of despotic actions by public administrations that were not afraid of any protest, as they enjoyed the impunity given them by the Franco dictatorship.
The creation of the National Cazorla-Segura Hunting Coto in 1960 was a change in the use of a large area where there were population centres whose inhabitants had to vacate. The Goldines is one of these villages, of which today only the ruins of the expropriated houses are preserved. Silence involves the visitor, who is only able to intubate the final chapter of a long and black history of injustice.
But the Godines were not, much less, the only village that was forcibly depopulated during the 20th century, the result of abusive State interventions in these mountains. During the construction of the Tranco reservoir, some populations such as San Miguel de Bujaraiza and the Chorreón ceased to exist and this led to the displacement of its inhabitants to other areas of the province of Jaén. The yellow rain of time and oblivion, which gave title to Julio Llamazares' tearing novel on a similar case in the Aragonese Pyrenees, also fell mercilessly on Los Centenares, Las Canalejas or Los Archites, in the Segura saw. Today they're just rubble and names, but they won't be forgotten.
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