Traditional constructions have only been modified, although the most rewarding is the view that you can enjoy from the village that really constitutes a natural balcony open to an overwhelming landscape in which stands out on the whole Calar del Cobo with the Puntal of the Mass.

If you like them, you can't stop visiting the Umbria, as it's a very good area for the collection of these mushrooms. In addition, a delicious unmarked road leads to the nearby village of Cabeza Gorda, located on the opposite side of a mountain, which is naturally called Morro de Cabeza Gorda.

The Church of Santa Maria was the most important monument of the advance of Cazorla. As a Renaissance, his inspiration is attributed to Andrew of Vandelvira or one of his disciples. It is built on the Cerezuelo River, taking advantage of the vault that covers the river and crosses the entire Plaza.

It is not the only unique building we find there: the House of the Clérigos, the Thematic Center of Threatened Species, the old Conistorial Houses (in an alley above the square) or the Fountain of the Chain (built in 1605) are some of the many visits we can make here.

In the square we also find nice restaurants that offer a great sample of local cuisine. To enjoy these dishes in the quiet dusk is one more reason to often go to this suggestive square.

We suggest:

• Visit the ruins of Santa Maria, know its history and its curious construction. You can order information from the tourist office (953 71 01 02).

• Up by the river Cerezuelo, passing the ruins of Santa María in the direction of the castle of La Yedra, and walking along one of the small routes that begin in this area. An information panel will help you to better know this area of the city.

In Cazorla, we leave the Plaza de la Constitución, in the center of the village. From here follow Doctor Muñoz Street to La Corredera Square. At the end of this, we turn right and immediately left, following the signs to the Castle of La Yedra. After passing by the balcony of Zabaleta and crossing the street José Salcedo Cano - a narrow and steep street with numerous pots in its balconies - we reached the Plaza de Santa María.

Lacquered walls and old wooden windows resist the passage of time miraculously. The gardens, which remain active, are arranged next to the houses alternating with some meadows. On the other side of the Trujala River is the Mount Navalhora and to the far away we see the unmistakable silhouette of the Navalperal.

Through the path PR-A 198 you will enjoy the landscape and you can approach Segura la Vieja, the settlement prior to the current Segura de la Sierra, which has an impressive view of the area.

These lines correspond to the Treaty of the Mountain, studied by the Duke of Almazan, a document that some researchers attribute to Jorge Manrique. To talk about the 15th century in the Sierra de Segura is to talk about the Manrique family and the border period. A situation in which attacks and responses by Christians and Muslims were frequent. This danger and the border situation can only be seen by entering Segura de la Sierra: remains of walls, towers, entrance doors and on top of the hill, the watchful castle.

The Visits Books of the Order of Santiago described in the late 15th century the castle of Segura de la Sierra as a military compound with weapons to face a siege or, if necessary, to organize a village to attack the enemy. We cannot forget that in 1434 Rodrigo Manrique organized a village to conquer Huécar in the Altiplano granadino.

In Segura de la Sierra, taking advantage of this privileged position and under the security offered by its walls is where Jorge Manrique was raised under the care of his mother, Mrs. Mencía de Figueroa, in the house that still today is preserved five hundred years later.

This is evident in the lack of materials and in the lack of furniture. Only the chapel with a Latin cross floor and a dome in which some frescoes are still preserved stand out.

The difficulties of the 17th century may have motivated the foundation of this monastery especially at a time when bad crops, hunger and bad weather caused the emergence of epidemics of the feared plague. The order of San Antonio Abad was dedicated to the healing of the sick and the fear of contagion caused these buildings to be far from the populations. Along with the plague, the economic crisis, the rise in prices, wars and in general the hardships led to an increase in the clergy and religious foundations in a context in which the Monarchy offered a contradictory vision that oscillated from splendor and misery or boom and decline.

A spectacular rise in which we gain height in a dizzy way, elevation curves and great precipities that make them as natural glances: this is what you can find in Marchena. You can't miss the houses attached to the rock known as the Mound right in the village of the same name on the way to Marchena. We find the olive tree, fruit trees and orchards next to oak and pine trees.

In Marchena you can make three small paths PR-A 107 known as "Arab Alquerías," the PR-A 101 that goes from the Picachos to the Tutubiero Age and the PR-A 102 known as the Mirabete road.

In the vicinity of the Hueta there are waterfalls and a lagoon that we suggest you discover. Very close to the Hueta there are other villages such as Puente Honda and you can even approach the ruins of the castle of the same name.

A small hermitage, which at the time made the school, brings to our head memories of past times. Its position allows it to have a privileged view over the nearby mountains, which you can know more in depth if you do the circular path of the Yelmo Chico, the PR-A 150 that part of the Capellania.

The crossbow is made up of two cores of houses separated by an old laundry room that awaits the arrival of people in laundry clothes. During the winter it has only four neighbors. It surprises the cleaning of the village and the freshness of the water that runs next to it. If you close your eyes you can discover that the silence is broken only by the rooster singing, the cat's maullido or the water running.

Next to the Ballestera we find Montalvo with a completely different landscape. It dominates an elevation that is accessed by a road that zigzaguea to the village and offers us impressive views over the valley. You can see narrow streets, narrow walls, houses recovered from ruin, all surrounded by privileged views of the valley.

Thanks to this father's work, we know many things about the College of the Society of Jesus in Segura de la Sierra. The buildings that are preserved today in Segura de la Sierra are the result of one of its neighbours' efforts to make a religious foundation. His name was Cristóbal Rodríguez de Moya and, in the face of his wife's death, he understood that he would have a problem with his heritage of not marrying one of his three daughters. By choosing his daughters for religious life, he founded a College.

To observe the interior of the Church of the Jesuits is not to do so in the key of the history of art or to analyze the restoration that the building has suffered, it is to have a vision of society from the end of the 16th century to approach its fears and a religiosity that permeated all aspects of life, of fear of the devil or to die in sin. An approach to daily life in a small mountain community, with the poor of solemnity to which the Society of Jesus attended with its pastoral missions.

In short, it is about knowing one more episode of the history of the end of the 16th century in Segura, the plague of 1596, the famine of 1605, the charity, the fears and poverty of a large part of the population and the collective sadness of the death of Francisca de Avilés, the last daughter of Cristóbal Rodríguez de Moya. To mentally recite the passage of this woman's death puts the hairs at the top, with a mass attended by all the people and even the Franciscans of Santa María de la Peña, of Orcera, to give the last farewell to the foundress.