Huesa

Nature

The municipal term of Huesa is located delimited to the United Nations Guadiana Minor and the Guadahortuna rivers, respectively. The latter, at the turn of the minor Guadiana, draw the southeast of the term of Huesa. The route of these rivers, with their short but fertile vegas, go to set up a natural corridor that communicates the granadine lands with the area of Alto Guadalquivir. A corridor that would be very passed through the civilizations that have preceded us, Carthaginese, Iberian, Roman and Muslim.

The term Bone is an area of abrupt relief and with deep-attached canyons, the gift of the maximum height is in the Pico del Caballo with 1464 m altitude, along with others distributed by the term: El Tomilar (1004 m.), el Peñón de Padilla or el Tabernillas.

Next to these steep mountains, predominant in the north, territory included in the Natural Park of the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas, there are areas of pastures, olive groves, land dedicated to the cultivation of cereals and orchard areas next to the river line.

So much. flora as fauna of the territory is abundant and very diverse. In the vegetation We find pineapples, preferably in the higher and more steep areas, a mixture of different indigenous coniferous and bushes, areas of pasture and the coastal forests along the river line, with birches, chopos, alamos, mitreras...

The groups of animals that make up the fauna of this territory are as follows: Avian (coal, chochyn, montesino, codorniz...); Dam birds (close it, pilgrim hawk, black milano); mammals (hares, rabbits, foxes, gines, boar and badger); reptiles (rib, lizard, Salamanca) and fish (barbs, tents, trout and gobs)

Parties and Events

The following parties are held in Huesa:

• San Silvestre, 31 December. It's the parties in honor of their pattern. They start the night before in the church square where the calls are burned "Castles of the Holy," raised with pine wood. Around the fires you sing, dance, and there are even those who dare to jump the flames and rescolds.

The tradition has been preserved since time immemorial of "to serve the saint," either by fulfilling a promise or by a penitential vote.

A draw will award the calls "charges" of Captain., Abandoned and Guinche, who will be forced to organize a party in their respective homes, and to wear the striking suits that are their own, inspired by the army's gala uniforms in the 18th century. In this way, they will accompany the Holy in the procession of a drum. After completing the religious function the Abandado shows its ability to malabar the flag and invites other people to do the same.

It's also tradition to offer San Silvestre some huge "white swimwear" sweet of Moorish reminiscent, which are given by the "charges" and neighbors who have promise to do so. The next day they are auctioned and the collection is dedicated to the needs of the parish.

• San MarcosApril 25. The main events are the Mass, followed by the surrender to the attendees of the calls "cakes of the saint" which by tradition are developed by those who have married the previous year. It ends the feast with the procession of the image of the saint to "El Cerro," from where the fields are blessed.

• Our Lady of the Headon April 26. Celebrations in honor of his Patronwith a rosemary to the hermitage of the Virgin, where religious acts are held. The rosemary lunches in the surroundings.

At night they make fires in the square of the Church and they taste the "crow"(drink made from wine, sugar, water and fruit) that the City Council offers to the attendees.

The first Sunday of June is also held a pilgrimage in honor of the Virgin of Tiscar, in the vicinity of Caniles.

Gastronomy

The gastronomy of Huesa has viandas of festive rituals, such as "the white-bath rosches" offered to San Silvestre, and the "cakes of the saint" with which the attendees of the Mass are given in honor of San Marcos.

The slaughter of the pig is carried out when the first cold arrive, and it is now frequent to celebrate with relatives and neighbors. Products the killing are:

• The black bitesmade of onion, grated bread, minced almonds and pig blood. The chorizos are usually fried in olive oil and are kept in orzas to go eating them during the year.

• Cakes, made with the butter that is left in the slaughter accompanied by porcine chicharons.

Other typical dishes of the Bone cuisine are:

• Pickles, which are made of flour, dry red peppers, roasted peppers and spicy.

• Andrajos, which are known here as "talarines." It is a stew of flour cakes with a tomato saffrito, onion, red peppers and minor game meat, hare or field rabbit.

• Migas of bread and flourThey carry torrezos, chorizo, rabanillos, olives and melon.

• "Maimons," It is a flour mashed with a dyes that covers the products of the slaughter.

Other than those indicated "bath thighs" and "cakes of the saint," We can quote calves and skillet rosses.

History

The municipality of Huesa is located south of the Pico del Caballo, mostly occupied by the depression of the minor Guadiana.

From Bronze age the area was populated by communities that took advantage of the fertility of the Vega. In Black Cerro There are remains of a settlement. In the Iberian period played a very important role, this territory served as a passage of goods, Greek ceramic, between the granadine altiplanices and the high Guadalquivir.

The oppidium of Castellones of Ceallocated at the limit of the term Bone and Hinojares, it shows us. With the arrival of the Romans, there was a change in the landscape due to the proliferation of agricultural crops, one of these the olive tree in Strong Arm.

During Islamic period, according to an Arab historian, Huesa, Tícar and Belerda were destroyed in the ninth century by Muslim troops, and then repopulated and centuries later become the last enclaves in Muslim hands of the saw. Being border of Castilla with the kingdom of Granada It was the scene of many struggles between Moors and Christians. It will not be until the 15th century when Don Iñigo de Mendoza, Marquis de Santillana, conquers this area, which would again fall into Muslim hands, to be finally released in the year 1455, the date on which King Henry IV grants him the title of County.

After the conquest of Granada, the core of Huesa begins its consolidation and repopulation, moves to its current location and passes to be part of the municipal term of Quesada until 1847.The 16th century was a time of economic prosperity, but this situation changed in the following century by the crises of lack of care and epidemics. The period of population recovery began in the 18th century.