This vía verde (greenway) covers 55km between Jaen and the Guadajoz river, where it joins the Vía Verde of the Subbética. It is suitable for walkers, cyclists and wheelchair users. This greenway follows part of the 120km-long Jaen-Puente Genil railway line used for transporting olive oil from the late 19th century onwards, linking Jaen with Malaga and Algeciras and opening up the market for oil.

The twentieth-century convent has been run by the Mothers of Desamparados and SanJosé de la Montaña Congregation since 1917. It was originally designed to serve as a hospital, and today functions as a convent, asylum, elderly residence and primary and secondary school.

On November 30, 1227, King Ferdinand III of Castile conquered the city of Baeza, and a year later, on December 8, 1228, the Castilian King donated the territory of Martos and its region to the Order of Calatrava, who built the mill of Cubo in 1437.

The chapel dates to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries, with a Gothic sacristy from the time of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.

This Renaissance-Baroque-style chapel is situated on the road to Martos. It seems that the construction of the church was related to a plague epidemic which devastated the locality in 1580; the chapel was inaugurated on September 26, 1584. The primitive hermitage underwent various restorationsin the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

History of Torredonjimeno

Torredonjimeno popular traditional festivals celebrated are the Three Kings, Carnival, Holy Week, May Crosses, San Isidro, San Pedro summer Feria.

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The Torredonjimeno tourist office is located in Ayuntamiento de Torredonjimeno

Bus Services - Torredonjimeno

The castle dates from the thirteenth century and features an irregular quadrangular plan, 80m long and 50m wide, with angles reinforced by square and circular towers more than 11m high and 5mwide. Under the domain of the Order of Calatrava, improvements were made to the castle, consisting of the construction of a fortified moat, presenting a double walled circuit in the middle of the fifteenth century.

The San Sebastián bridge dates from the sixteenth century. It is contiguous on one side with the former Puerta de Martos and on the other with the pillar of the same name that rises over the bed of the salty stream. It responds to a Renaissance trace, made in stonework and with beautiful proportions. It is composed of a single semicircular eye framed by strong stirrups.

This building was originally commissioned as the Town Hall, to serve one of the most important nuclei of the Order of Calatrava.Its construction was sponsored by the Mayor,Don Andrés de Guevara Calatayud, began in the early seventeenth century and ended in 1642. The building is of great significance to the community, both a symbol of the splendor of Tosyrian history and a statement about architecture’s crucial civic and economic role. In 2007, it was declared anAsset of Cultural Interest.

This fountain is of medieval origin and was renovated in the eighteenth century. The façade is organized by means of four Doric-Tuscan pilasters, between which there are blind semicircular arches, topped by an entablature and decorated triangular pediment studs, on whose tympanum the Torredonjimeno shield appears in half relief and cartouches on each side, with legends alluding to its construction in 1721.

This church was built in the sixteenth century, taking advantage of the materials of the urban wall of the city. It was reformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has a Gothic architectural style. The original altarpiece dated from 1537 butwas largely destroyed in 1936;only the crown and curtains survived, and they have been perfectly integrated into the current altarpiece’s design, the work ofAmadeo Ruiz Olmos.

This Renaissance-style church, designed by Francisco del Castillo, was built in 1592. It is divided into three naves by sober Tuscan columns that support a Mudejar coffered ceiling. The altarpiece, from the first halfof the seventeenth century, is originally from a convent in Valladolid. Also noteworthy is the large number of Holy Weekpaintworks, many of them by Francisco Palma Burgos and Amadeo Ruiz Olmos.

Founded by Don Jerónimo de Padilla, Knight of the Order of Santiago, to house a convent and school for maidens. Around 1550, the works on the church and the rest of the monastery’s premises were finished. Inside are the burial chambers of the founders and their family. The church has a single nave, with side chapels embedded in the wall. It has a double choir on the feet and on the side of the presbytery. The Baroque altarpiece dates from 1728.

The seventeenth-century convent was in operation until 1840, when it disappeared due to the confiscation of Mendizábal. Only the convent church that occupied the entire block is preserved, of which only the vaults and sides are conserved as original elements.

Torredonjimeno has a fascinating historical and artistic heritage, and sits on two of Andalucia’s major cultural routes, the Ruta de los Nazaríes del Legado Andalusí (Nasrid Andalusian Legacy Route) and Ruta de los Castillos (Castles Route).The town has about 13,600 inhabitants.