Torreblascopedro

Torreblascopedro is a town that belongs to Jaén, included in the Autonomous Region of Andalucía. At north-east it borders on Lupión, at East on Begijar, at north on Linares, at north-west on Jabalquinto and from the south-west until the south-east on Villatorres. According to INE (HMSO) in 2005 it had 2.866 inhabitants. The town includes the two local entities called Torreblascopedro and Campillo del Río, to 8 kilometres one from another. The most influential populated area in Torreblascopedro is Linares, at 12 kilometres to the north.

The origin of Torreblascopedro were several cortijadas (a collection of houses put up by the labourers or owners of a grange) or dispersed houses. The population centre comes up from the block of houses defined by a house in which appears the inscription from 1714, expanding towards the North progressively. We can emphasize in the urban area of Torreblascopedro wide streets or boulevards flanked by urban houses, with broad façade and regularized spaces.

The Torre de Blasco Pedro was pedanía of Baeza and during a period it also belonged to Lupión. In 1813 Torreblascopedro requested Lupión its independence that was not carried out until 1871.

Monuments

Parish Church of San José
 
Parish Church of San Isidro Labrador. In Campillo del Río.
 
Archaeological Sites 
 
You have to take part in the exceptional archaeological richness around the ruins of Cástulo.  
 
Town Planning 
 
Plaza and Paseo del Ayuntamiento. 
 
Anejo de Campillo del Río.

Gastronomy

The traditional food of the torreños (people from Torreblascopedro), who were farming people, was composed of a breakfast with “gachamiga”, a stew made with flour, potatoes and olive oil, and whose ingredients have to turned over with skill in the same frying pan until obtaining a flat cake with uniform texture. In the lunchtime we can eat “pipirranas” or “gazpachos” which were eaten standing in the gorge depending on the season, and in the afternoon-night, when people returned home with the leftovers of the fatty salt pork, a stew made with those leftovers from different days that once fried and seasoned with tomato, brought about “ropa vieja”.  
 
The cod is a typical stew at Holy Week, that in Torreblascopedro can be fried, in meatballs or the traditional “bacalao encebollado”. In these dates we also can taste the “tortas dormidas”, called with this name because its dough has to stand for a day until you add baking powder in order to ferment. In the torreña cuisine at Holy Week we also can taste the “hornazos” –baked dough that had inside a hard-boiled egg– and the “ochíos”, made with the same dough than the hornazos but we have to add sugar. 

With regard to the confectionery we have to mention the “tortas de bizcochos” and “magdalenas caseras (homemade fairy cakes)”, or the so-called “mostachones”, or an old sweet with Moorish roots like the “bizcocho cuajado”, that have ingredients like almonds, egg and sugar.

How to get there

You have to exit Jaén. And continue in: JV-3012. Then take the road JP-3012. Alleyway of Puente Tablas. Then turn right in the Motorway A-6000. You have to cross Torrequebadilla and follow until Campillo del Río and continue until Torreblascopedro.

Distances

To Jaén 40 km
To Ibros 16 km
To Baeza 17 km
To Begíjar 12 km
To Linares 12 km  
To Lupión 9,5 km
To Jabalquinto 23 km
To Puente del Obispo 14 km
To Caserío de Torrubia 6,5 km