Garcíez
Route
of Sierra Mágina
To complete this route in its entirety, it takes two days or at least a day and a half. It could also be divided into two: one, which comprises the Jaén-Huelma route, and the other, Jaén-Bedmar, which runs the sequence proposed here in the opposite direction. Both of a single day with departure and return to Jaén.
La Guardia
Pegalajar
Cambil
Huelma
Bedmar
Garcíez
The Parish Church of La Asunción, although simple, also responds to the style of the mid-16th century, built by a stonemason from Baezano who worked on other occasions under Vandelvira: Miguel Ruiz de la Peña. This church had a piece of exceptional quality, today in the cathedral of Jaén, the Cardinal Merino Missal, made in workshops in northern Italy.
Jimena
The Parish Church of Santiago is the most outstanding piece. A large factory started in a late Gothic style already in the 16th century visible in its main chapel, which on the outside already shows classical ornamental motifs, possibly when the town passed from the hands of the Order of Calatrava to that of Doña María de Mendoza, widow already from Francisco de los Cobos. The temple has undergone a serious reform in the 60s of the last century.
Perhaps better known are the cave paintings of the Cueva de la Graja, in the Sierra del Lanchar, of a schematic type, considered from the Neolithic period.
Albanchez de Mágina
The tight hamlet of the town invites you to penetrate through its steep streets to the square where the Parish Church of La Asunción is located, very simple, but with its basilica structure of a Renaissance temple, which is covered by a cassette vault in combination with Mudejar armor. It also has an interesting stone baptismal font from the 14th century.
It is essential to try the traditional sweets from the Contreras oven.
The offer of rural tourism allows us to rest in the Cortijo de Hutar, very well restored and with exceptional views.
Torres
Mancha Real
The most important monumental piece is the church of San Juan Bautista, in which Vandelvira's hand is present on its side portal. Also in what is the structure of the temple it follows the Vandelvian schemes, although it was not fully realized until well into the seventeenth century.