The title, granted by Philip II, allowed him to have full jurisdiction, made symbolized by the presence of rolls and picotas. While the former reflect the new administrative and legal status, picotta is the place where the prisoners were punished.

The rolls marked the jurisdictional limit and were commemorative monuments of the award of the title of Villa. The picotas were stone columns, more or less ornamented, where punishments and public scarings were applied. At present, the three conserved in the municipality are crouched and topped by crosses.

In the streets of Mengibar there are a large number of hornadoes, in which are venerated to crucified and images of the Virgin Mary in her various vocations: of Carmen, of the Head, etc. The origin of these dates back to the 17th century, when the ecclesiastical authorities of the city request the collaboration of the neighbors to build 14 hornaces on the streets for which the Holy Week processions would take place. In the hornadines, crosses were installed, providing the parishioners with the prayers relevant to the stations of the Holy Way Cruces.

Of all the hornacinas, the Hermanos Fernández with the Cross of Caravaca, very venerated by pregnant women in order to have good birth, Antonio José de la Chica or Pozuelo, whose devotion has been constant over the centuries, and García Morato or Alta, one of the most venerated and best decorated.

The work for its location, carried out by the University Institute of Research in Iberian Archaeology of the University of Jaén with the support of the City of Mengíbar, began in 2018. In relation to its characteristics, it is proposed that the foundation found allows to interpret a large arc of 14.80 meters long, almost 5 meters wide and a single central vanity of 5.15 meters, where the Via Augusta was running.

The relevance of this finding served to be declared, with great haste (2019), as Good of Cultural Interest.