Jimena, Spain

Historia

Jimena is a city the Province of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, with 1489 inhabitants according to the National Statistics Institute of Spain in 2007.Geography and heritageIt is in the northwest area of Sierra Magina, which portion is mountainous terrain southeast and included in the natural park of Sierra Magina.The rest of the field is the predominant crop in the olive grove. Economic activity is based on olive growing and processing industry, complemented by the cultivation of the fig tree and use of the fig and fig.The Canavan pine (forest of ancient pines and exceptional size) has been declared a Natural Monument for its ecological and scenic value.His Feasts of 7 to 10 September, where we can enjoy the procession and their carriages, to which numerous people come from other villages around.HistoryJimena has a rich legacy of prehistoric times, a group of rock paintings in the Cave of the Rook, which highlight the culture of groups of pastors between the fourth and third millennia BC populated the Southern Sierras. In this phase have been recorded several settlements in the municipality, among which the Cerro Alcalá, fundamental reference for the prehistory and early history of this town as well as medieval times.In the Iberian stage Cerro Alcalá is one of the oppida in the sixth century BC which will held in the following centuries until the Roman era. Some researchers have linked Alcala to Cerro Ossigi referring to the written sources.Epigraphic and constructive Numerous findings show that this settlement would hold some sort of Roman status as Municipium.In the Arab period there was an intense occupation of the town of Jimena by small or rural farmsteads. The town had several forts for shelter, Fountain of the Moor, Hill Alcalá or mentioned in the chronicles as San Istibin or San Astabin, a name that has been in a spot close to Jimena, Santisteban. Reports suggest that this was one of the castles in which the Banu Business rebelled against the power of the emir of Córdoba. Jimena (Xemena) could be another of these fortified castles or a farm after the Christian conquest.