It is one of the most cuddly and important springs in Sierra Magina, being the pride of the shrubs. Although water sprouts through limestone rocks and liasic dolomies of an aquifer, it has a marked saline character because it arises in the breast of margas with triasic plaster.

The waters of the birth are collected in an artificial construction raft that stores them and leads by a system of waterfalls that runs throughout the village.

Next to the birth is one of the four power plants that used the waters of the river for the production of electricity.
This beautiful area is conditioned with a meringero area that allows visitors to enjoy a picnic in a unique natural environment.

The river course is channeled in a multitude of waterfalls that give wealth to the land of the municipality and irrigate many hectares of land. Previously it gave impetus to flour and oil mills, while it is currently used for the irrigation of the olive tree, true economic engine of the area.

The space has a magnificent road with barbecues, banks, tables, stationery, a small bar and children's playground, where you can spend a pleasant day surrounded by nature and where you can take advantage of the freshness of the place and the shadows of the trees.

In the birth of the Arbuniel you can see ducks and river crabs, which inhabit in its channel thanks to the great amount of lime of its waters, and abundant trout.

The "official" birth of the Guadalquivir River has been placed under a plaque that reproduces a poem by the brothers Alvarez Quintero. But, in the strict sense, the sources of Guadalquivir are found in the spacious honnada of the Cañada de las Fuentes. In this place there are several streams that come down from the nearby mountains: that of the Teatines, that of the Cold John or the stream of Light among others.

The place has overcome moments of intense tourist pressure and today, with a more appropriate public use order, we are presented with clean and sensitive, so our visit must be at all times silent and respectful.

From the Cañada de las Fuentes you are a step away from enjoying some of the most striking routes in the area.

We suggest...

• Up to the peak of Cabañas, at whose foot is a forest track in acceptable condition, about 10 km. Following the track that goes to Pozo Alcón from the birth we arrive, after 2.5 km, to the pine of the three crosses. Here begins the track that goes up to this proud viewpoint of the Sierra del Pozo.

• Walk by the Cañada de la Fuente. About a mile from the forest house of the same name, a road to the right begins surrounded by majuelos and maples, with some of the largest specimens of pine larice of the Park. On the way it is easy to observe we, even muflons in the lapiaz on the right, as well as millennia tejos

• Continue two kilometers along the track that goes up to Pozo Alcón and, 300 meters before the pine of the three crosses, take the left road to the Prados de Navahondona.

From Cazorla you can reach the Sierra road, A319. In the Empalme del Valle we will see an indication of the birth to the right, and follow that direction for 4 km until you find a bridge over the Guadalquivir. As we pass the bridge we turn right to the Bridge of Herrerías. From here, without leaving the main road, there are 11 km to the Birth.

This is a set of karmic developments, among which is the one located on a vertical wall of a river cannon excavated in jurassic limestone. The latter is the one historically considered "the birth of the Guadalquivir River." However the river is fed by all the streams and births that are located somewhat above in the so-called "Cañada de las Fuentes."

Source: Inventory of Georresources of Andalusia. Environmental Council. Junta de Andalusia.

The Torreon, on its three floors, consists of a "honey room" and souvenir and beekeeping shop, an audiovisual room and workshop, the generic museum space, common areas for temporary exhibitions and a room dedicated specifically to the Bronze Age, in the Rumblar River Basin.

Selected as a reference centre by the European Union for the dissemination of the culture of Olive Oil, the space of knowledge and museum Terra Oleum is spread over an area of more than 11,000 square meters. The largest area of knowledge planned in the Mediterranean basin for a food product.

The Museum, promoted by the Diputación de Jaén, Consejeria de Agricultura de la Junta de Andalucía, and developed by the Fundación del Olivar, is located within the Geolit Technological Park in Mengíbar, the heart of the Andalusian olive tree.

It has a permanent exhibition of modern interactive, audiovisual, machinery and other types of scenography, on olive, olive oil and sustainability. A revolutionary 3D video-aping system makes the visitor a true master of almazara able to direct all processes for obtaining olive juice.

Terra Oleum is framed within the wet area of the Quebracántaros tributary, whose spring is born within the same Olivos Centenarios Forest of the Museum. The outdoor activities, from the collection of the olive, to the recognition of indigenous species in this natural space, are part of the essence of the center: harmony with a humanized forest.

The auditorium becomes the central space of the events that take place in the Museum. It has the most advanced technology in image and sound, equipped with electronic systems of participation that allows a fluid exchange of knowledge with the visitor.

Terra Oleum also offers an extensive programme of parallel activities that combines visits to the permanent exhibition with workshops, courses and seminars through proposals for all audiences. The field and the mill become the central axis of our dialogue with the visitor. An immersion into the world of virgin olive oil by the hand of experts in this science that becomes an authentic art.

The selection of extra virgin olive oils Terra Oleum brings together the best oil in practice all of the jiennese, Andalusian and Spanish olive trees. The green and mature fruits evoke the aromas of nature, in a permanent exhibition that allows the tasting and tasting of all of them in a relaxed environment: the Museum's Oleoteca.

Before the end of the visit we cannot forget Oleaginus, a space for art and culture, located in the area of quality promotion: Denominations of Origin, olive bookstore, contemporary painting and oleary art, demand the attention of the visitor in an atmosphere of light sipped by the solar courts that are born on their terraces.

The avant-garde architecture and its modern proposals for communication with the visitor make Terra Oleum a unique place to feel the culture of virgin olive oil from the first step.

The museum is divided into two sections: In the first one is made a pleasant introduction to the bullfighting for the people of Novels on this theme and the second section speaks of the relationship that Villanueva of the Archbishop has with this world, from the beginning of the municipality going through the reasons why the current bullring square was built and making special mention of the most famous bulldozers who have stepped on this bullring.

The museum's collection consists of numerous oils, watercolors and drawings, and other collections of modern art. Artists of the prestige of Miró, Percébal or Tapies donated their works for the museum. Rafael Zabaleta was linked to the Paris school. His painting is mainly nourished by the avant-garde, impressing into his landscape an air of metaphysical solitude. Picasso and Modigliani will also be of great influence in their entire career, collecting from the first that robustness in the nudes and the Parisian outdoor scenes. They will be the images of their native land with which the one of Quesada is most easily identified at the end of their career, both for its easy and true drawing and for its bright handling of the color in rural and customary scenes, in accordance with the times it has had to live.

Around the figure of Zabaleta, a prestigious international painting and sculpture competition has been held in Quesada since 1970. The award-winning works complete the museum's collection.

The museum is divided into three rooms, highlighting in the first one the mantos of the greatest historical significance, as well as a picture of the 17th century Romeria and the custody donated by Mussolini; in the second, we can see the mantos donated by the kings of Spain and other personalities, several reproductions of the image of the Virgin of the Head, its processional cage and several vitrines with objects of high significance; in the third room we can find a model of the sanctuary on a scale of 1 / 50, work by Manuel Molina and the pinacoteca of the painter Arsenia on the Menerora.