The image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus grew in popularity throughout the nineteenth century. Local Mayor, DonLucas Guillén, was particularly devoted to it.
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.
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.
The most significant building in Carboneros is its church, dedicated, like so many others from the same period, to the Inmaculada Concepción. It was built in the second half of the eighteenth century, presenting a great architectural package in the purest Neoclassical style.
This whitewashed stonework building is also from the late eighteenth century. It has a predominantly horizontal structure, with a lintel door that marks the symmetry, which is accessed through double stairs, flanked by two rectangular windows. The floor plan is U-shaped and has a single consistent height.
The surroundings of the La Fernandina reservoir are located to the east of the urban area, very close to the village of El Acebuchar. This spot offers beautiful vistas of Mediterranean pasture forest, with abundant holm oaks, and constitutes an ideal place for the development of extensive cattle ranching.
The Molino de la Cerda family managed and oversaw the economic greatness experienced by the town in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the heraldry that adorns the upper windows of their palatial home implies that they were also relatives of the Holy Inquisition
This sanctuary was built in successive stages on the site of another primitive temple,which must have been much smaller and dated from the end of the thirteenth century.
The Argaric town of Peñalosa has been a benchmark for the investigation of the Bronze Age of the Alto Guadalquivir. It sits on a tongue-shaped slate spur, with two steep slopes bordering the Rumblar River to the north and the Salsipuedes stream to the south. Currently, the waters of the Rumblar reservoir bathe the structures of this Argaric town.
Baños de la Encina is marked by the presence of its imposing Caliphal fortress, built on a rocky spur that dominates the Guarromán River. Its structure follows the contour of the rock, narrowing at the ends.
The church was erected in the late fifteenth century with a Gothic design for its nave, as shown by its pointed arches and tercelete vaults. The side portal is also Gothic, while the main entrance, carved in 1576, is Mannerist. Its octagonal base tower, articulated in three sections and topped by pinnacles, dated 1596, is inspired by the architecture of Vandelvira.
The most impressive element of this seventh-century church is its great prismatic dressing room-tower, added around the middle of the eighteenth century.
The Town Hall dates back to the time of Carlos I. It has a landscape façade of ashlar masonry, in the Castilian style, in which a semicircular arch opens, with a wrought-iron balcony with roof tiles and, on the right, the emblem of the Habsburgs.
In 1808, Fray Manuel de Jaén, a Capuchin priest, saw the Spanish troops marching alongside him until they reached the site where they would defend themselves from French offensives.
This chapel’s history is marked by the two styles distinctly presented in its architecture; the Gothic is reflected in the rectangular nave, divided in four by three pointed arches, all settled since the end of the fourteenth century.
This eighteenth-century chapel once served as a local school, and was subsequently donated by the Bailén families of Corchado and Barreda to the Santa Vera Cruz Brotherhood.
This site was once surrounded by orchards, since it is an abundant natural water source. In bygone times, local men would collect water in jugs from a stone fountain.
Commonly known as Huerta del Sordo (Deaf Garden), this garden is an outstanding symbol of the Peninsular War, where both armies converged during the Battle of Bailén in 1808, and is now Declared as a Historical Site of Cultural Interest.