Jabalquinto

Jabalquinto is located to the south of the Comarca Norte whose territory, almost flat, presents the typical landscape of the oil countryside. Jabalquinto has, as well too, irrigated lands in the fertile lowland of the Rivers Guadalimar and Guadalquivir. The city centre is located in the summit of a hill from where we have beautiful sights. The main economic activity in the agriculture based on the olive grove cultivation, basically, and the industrial herbaceous cultivations, like the beetroot and the cotton. Due to the proximity of Jabalquinto to places like Linares and Bailén it has a chance of job for its working population.

We have not many details about the historic development in Jabalquinto. During the Roman Age, Jabalquinto, known as Ossigi, would belong to the jurisdiction of Cástulo, the most important town located in the Alto Guadalquivir and because of this the exchanges and the influence over Jabalquinto would be remarkable.

The present-day Jabalquinto, is a modern town: its foundation is due to the distinguished House of Biedma, nowadays joined to the one of earls-dukes of Benavente, whose ancestors, having came to fight against the Moorish in the first waves of the Reconquest, as a reward for its services they received the castle of Estiviel, won by Fernando III El Santo, and the towns of Hortalancha and Ventosilla, that were part of this territory.

Immediately after other acquisitions were added when it was linked with the family Álvarez de Funes, specifically some mills between Mengíbar and Estiviel.

Jabalquinto had been municipal district of the jurisdiction in Baeza, and in 1347 Baeza transferred it to Día Sánchez de Biedma from the House of Benavides from the above-mentioned town, having its origin the Marquis of Jabalquinto who gives his name to an ancient palace and nowadays located in front of the Town Hall.

The development should be conditional on the contingencies during a time in which the influence of the nobility was very important because it was an exclusive patrimony of the House Benavides, who had strong confrontations with the House of Carvajales, made worse because they took sides everyone by a dynastic branch when the Catholic Monarchs arrived.

The House of Benavides supported to the House of Beltraneja and the Carvajales to the Catholic Monarchs, although later the House of Benavides would swear loyalty to the Monarchs and would fight with them in the War of Granada.

With the rebellion of the Comunidades it would start again the fights between the two families. Now the House of Benavides supports to the joint owners of land (comuneros) and the House of Carvajales to Carlos I, being dependence on Baeza, until it obtained its emancipation. 

Monuments

Parish Church. 

Archaeological Sites 
 
Castle 
 
Town Planning 
 
Small Square of the Town Hall.

Gastronomy

We can find in the traditional cuisine of Jabalquinto the "guiñapos", made with strips of flour pastry, baked with different ingredients to which we add meat or fish (cod).

The confectionery in Jabalquinto is famous, above all due to its "homemade fairy cakes” (magdalenas caseras), that are made in the different baker’s shops of the town; it is  also typical the "borrachuelos" or flour pastry, soaked in muscatel, fried and covered with sugar, that is made in festive occasions.

How to get there

You have to exit Jaén and continue in J-14. In the roundabout you have to take the exit 2 and continue in E-902 / A-44 towards Bailén - Madrid. Then you have to take the exit towards: Exit 12, CN-323-a, Bailén 
Linares - Jabalquinto. You have to follow towards: Linares – Jabalquinto and continue in the Motorway A-302 then turn right in JV-3002. You get Jabalquinto.

Distances

To Jaén 40 km 
To Baeza 37 km  
To Bailén 21 km  
To Linares 14 km  
To Andújar 38 km  
To Mengíbar 16 km  
To Guarromán 30 km  
To Baños de la Encina 30 km  
To Villanueva de la Reina 27 km