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Guarromán

History - Guarromán
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the Court of Carlos III undertook a series of social reforms aimed at providing the agricultural working classes with financial independence; the aim was to revitalize the agrarian structures that had been stagnant for centuries, giving rise to a new class of agricultural owners

Festivals - Guarromán
Festivals in Guarromán Popular festivals in Guarromán are Fiesta y Feria del Olivar, Romería de San Isidro Labrador, Pintahuevos and Festividad del Corazón de Jesús.

Bus Services - Guarromán

The bus stop is located on Av. de Andalucia, 23210 Guarromán, Jaén. Empresa Samar provide a return bus service between Guarromán and Jaen.

Weather - Guarromán

Guarromán

Guarromán - if you are considering visiting this town you will be interested to check the latest weather forecast for the next few days from the table below.

This weather forecast provided by AEMET (Spanish State Meteorological Agency).

'Wind' in last row of the table below indicates wind direction by a compass letter(s); North, South, East, West and a number which is the the wind speed in km per hour.

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción - Guarromán
The church dates from the eighteenth century and was the first parish built in the Nuevas Poblaciones. Its simple facade is built in red sandstone and has a belfry with a colonial appearance. Inside, the carving of the Inmaculada Concepción made by the sculptor Jacinto Higueras.

Pósito de labradores - Guarromán
This building’s construction was completed in 1789. It represents the colonial typology of such buildings designed for the storage, regulation, production and distribution of grain and seed.

Palacio del Intendente - Guarromán
The Palace dates from 1807. It construction was ordered by the Mayor of the New Towns of Sierra Morena, Tomás González de Carvajal. The sundial located in one of its corners stands out, installed to tell the time to the stagecoaches that made their stop at the post house.

Plaza Nicolás Kerche - Guarromán
This square, located on the main street of Guarromán, bears its name in honour of the first child born in the town after its colonisation. The sculpture in the centre is dedicated to the settlers who arrived in 1767 and symbolises their dreams of achieving a better future in this land.

Fuente Taza - Guarromán
In 1887, the Mayor, Don Lucas Guillén carried out a project to bring water to Guarromán, commissioning public fountains. The most ornamental of the fountains in Guarromán was known as Fuente Taza, made of sandstone like all the important buildings in the town.

Monumento a los Mineros - Guarromán
This work by Javier Ruiz Abel is a tribute to those miners from Granada and Almería who, at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, came to work in the mines of the Linares-La Carolina district.

Fuente de las Generaciones - Guarromán
This contemporary work by the local sculptor, Javier Ruiz Abel, represents the seven generations of Guarromanenses, each one raising the next one above itself and all of them surrounded by the tree of life, a holm oak, the representative tree of the New Populations.
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