Description
Génave is located on a hillside, near the wide valley in which the foothills of Sierra Morena and Sierra de Segura converge, on the road to Levante, a natural step that goes back to the Guadalimar River, connecting the Guadalquivir with the Peninsular Levant.
The only rest of the missing Génave castle is the so-called Torreon de la Tercia built by Christians at the end of the 13th century. It has an impressive cubic structure and is located in the center of the population.
Historical data
The data relating to the medieval Génave are scarce, but it must have been one of the many foothills that populated the Sierra de Segura. A fortification or tower was probably built between the 11th and 13th centuries in the face of the advance of Christian armies.
After the Christian conquest, between 1235 and 1239, Géave and the whole Sierra de Segura were controlled by the Order of Santiago's Order and they had to endure the raison and attacks of intimidation of Saracena troops, so this and other torreons acted as a parapet in these war skirmishes and as a shelter for the population.
The chronicles written at the end of the Middle Ages, such as those of Don Francisco de León in 1468 or the Relations of Philip II of 1575, speak of the tower without any reference to a castle or enclosure of important dimensions, so it had to replace the ancient Islamic fortress.
Until 1551 Génave was the village of Segura de la Sierra, from that year on he received the privilege of Villa de orden de Felipe II.
In 1575 Génave is included in the Chancellery district of Granada, it depends on the archbishopric of Toledo and the Kingdom of Murcia before the Cortes, although it is directly under the governorate of Segura de la Sierra.
Description
This tower, surrounded by buildings that cover its bottom, is built in irregular masonry.
It has a square floor of 10.50 m on its side, and in its interior two overlapping rooms are kept covered with half-canyon vaults. To access each of them, as well as the roof, there is a staircase embedded in the thickness of the walls covered with the same type of vault.
The access is now made through a building that houses the Adult Center of the town and which was previously the seat of the City Council.
The tower was declared in 1985 Good of Cultural Interest.
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