El torreón de Lupión
Within the Cube we can consider up to four spatial and functional levels: At the lower level or ground floor, we find ourselves in front of a circular floor room of approximately 8 m in diameter with a half-orange vault with a height of approximately 10 m.
Due to this considerable height it could have been divided into several levels with structures and wooden entwels. The site available in these defence towers was so valuable that it took advantage of the smallest space for the storage of food, utensils and the shelter of people that the Order of Santiago kept under its protection.
The intermediate level or first floor is a circular room of smaller size because it contains the staircase access to the roof. It has a vault pointed on nerves where its intermediate cloth is also made of stone.
From the roof, we can see the plain where the Kurah was framed in the time of Al-Ándalus, this allowed the control of the four cardinal points against the fronts of advance.
The tower has a height of 21.5 m and is made of masonry with lime mortar. The average diameter is 8.5 m and the thickness of the walls is more than 2.75 m.
It has a rectangular plant facing from northeast to southeast and a walled enclosure. The best preserved wall is the northeast, 18.70 meters long and 4 meters high in its highest corner. It consists of several rows of large-scale stones, on which a wall of tapial, now missing, would be raised. In its interior it retains a seam of regular armchairs, smaller than those of the outer wall, of 6.30 meters in length and 2 meters in width.
Although it dates from Iberian chronology, both ceramic decorated with Iberian ceramic bands andterra sigillataRoman, so you can deduce a continued occupation of the land; as well as medieval ceramics.
Its mission was to monitor and control the communication routes, as it is closely linked to the corridor of the Guadiana Minor River, which communicates the upper valley of Guadalquivir with the highlands of Guadix and Baza.
In 1985 it was declared Good of Cultural Interest.
On the hill of Castellón are preserved the remains of an Iberian cyclopian fortress between the II and I BC centuries It is a walled enclosure, with a quadrangular structure and an aljibe inside it, built with limestone armchairs that reach a meter and a half in length.
It highlights its website where we find the various activities that can be developed and the publications of its cultural association.
The eco museum is a cultural center where you can travel in time to understand the history of the following people. There you can know and learn the customs and traditions, ancient techniques of the trades, the relationship of man to the territory, the exploitation of natural resources, as they dressed, ate, lived, etc.
Location: On the highway of Granada, just at the limit of the municipal terms of Campillo, Cárcheles and Cambil.
Distance: 7 km.
Medium: Tourism vehicle.
Access: Directly via the Granada Highway (A-44)
The river erosion, which has a limestone wall of about 400 meters high, is the result of the river erosion. There is a teaching path dedicated to local botany.
When Franco passed through Lopera in the 1950s he ordered that new houses be demolished and built for his tenants in the Pradillo Guijoso neighborhood, the front of the first body was finally only demolished. Some are currently abandoned and others have been occupied by Lopera's neighbours by keeping firewood or coal inside.
The 11 caves at the entrance were used as shelters during the Civil War. They date back to 1828 and had several bodies.
The predominant indigenous vegetation is the oaks and moans, low mountain of rosemary, lentisco and sabina. Some well-known routes are the Carchelejo-Cazall- Convent, Carchel to Carchelejo by the Barrio de la Grilla or the ascension to the Cueva del Puerto de las Palomas. On the urban periphery of the two cores there are several recreational areas, such as the Parque de la Fuente, the Haza de la Widow and the sports facilities of Carchelejo and Cárchel.
Cárcheles has a wide variety of natural sites such as the Monastery Barrio, the Cueva del Puerto de las Palomas, Cazalla and the Convent, etc., where to make excursions, using all kinds of means of transport: on foot, by cavalry, bike, bike or car, etc.
It is one of the greatPaleolithic-era rock sanctuariesthey are located in the Alto Guadalquivir. The paintings are in a small room in the Cave. These are two different chromatism caprics, one red and one black. It is very likely that we are facing a sanctuary in which the paintings have a magical propitiatory purpose for hunting, which was the main means of life of the surrounding populations. These rock paintings have been declaredGood for Cultural Interest.On the outskirts is"The Beast"which is as popularly known the bridge thatAndrés Vandelvira built in 1565,on behalf of Maria de Mendoza.
The great presence of limestone and the karmic effects make our province abundant the caves and coats that served as a home for those who lived these lands thousands of years ago. The Cueva de la Graja is an example of this; this rocky coat located at the north end of the Aznaitín at 750 meters high houses rock art manifestations with an age of 2000 to 5000 years before our age. The cave can be visited by requesting it previously in the City of Jimena.
At the north end of the Aznaitin massif, in the area known as "the Cimbra," is the Cueva de la Graja. It is really a 6-meter-deep coat by 6-wide, which in its highest part reaches 5 meters. In addition to offering wonderful views from its 750 meters of altitude, this coat houses rock art manifestations that were made between 2000 and 5000 years before our era. Made with pigments obtained through the mixture of iron oxide, clays and animal fats; the paintings represent rites and grazing work. Declared an Artistic Historical Monument in 1924, the cave can be visited on request in the City of Jimena.
While other castles can focus mainly on their medieval history, Cosmolarium offers a completely different experience for two reasons:
In short, its universe museum, planetary sessions, guided tours and night sky observation activities make it unique in the region.
It is a centre for the interpretation of astronomy that consists of a digital planetarium, with a dome of 8 meters in diameter that shows enveloping audiovisual productions, complete exhibition rooms on the Universe, spaces for workshops and educational games, as well as a terrace for astronomical observations.