Jódar Old Railway Station Route
Routes
It is the route that links the Loma de Úbeda and the Guadalquivir River with the centre of Sierra Mágina.
The Jódar railway station is on the border with the municipality of Úbeda. In this station, which is no longer in use, millions of tons of wood were once shipped, which arrived floating along the Guadalquivir from the Sierras de Cazorla and Segura. Similarly, the esparto grass production of Jódar and Cabra de Santo Cristo also used these railway docks to start their long journey.
Program
About 6 kms away is Jódar, the largest town in Sierra Mágina. We will arrive by the A-401 road. Jódar stands out because of the services it offers, and because of the castle that houses one of the two Visitor Centres in the Sierra Mágina Natural Park.
Our route runs along the eastern side of Sierra Mágina. Little by little and during 18 kms. the olive grove landscape turns into a subdesert mountain.
On the right we will find the detour to Bélmez de la Moraleda. The waters of the River Gargantón make the landscape green and full of orchards. The main attraction of the town is the famous Caras de Bélmez, a curious phenomenon that attracts locals and strangers alike to this small village.
Along the A-401, our walk will continue for 12 kms. in the direction of Huelma. Almost at the end of the route we find the Cabritas district, a dispersed rural habitat that hides dozens of old mills and orchards that for centuries, and since the Middle Ages, have made this place a fruit and vegetable orchard.
Pay attention to the detour on the A-324, which in just three kms. takes us to the centre of Huelma, a town that offers us catering services, and two jewels of the Andalusian Renaissance, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the work of Andrés de Vandelvira, and the castle that watches over the town from above.
45 kms.
50 minutes (not including stops).
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