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.

The building where the Museum is located is a modern and avant-garde cultural infrastructure, built by the Junta de Andalucía, with more than 11,000 square meters and which has required an investment of more than 25.5 million euros. Located on the Paseo de la Estación, No. 41 of Jaén, in the heart of the capital, the Ibero Museum of Jaén aims to become a world reference of Iberian culture at the tourist, cultural and scientific level.

200 metres from the Ibero Museum is the Museum of Jaén, a container of Iberian pieces of art of extraordinary value, among others belonging to the Iberian sculptural ensemble of Cerillo Blanco de Porcra. The sculptures, which date back to the 5th century BC, tell us the mythical history of an aristocratic lineage, where the struggles of warriors are impressed by their great realism. The Museum of Jaén proposes two historical and two thematic tours: the Archaeology Section in which it highlights an important collection of Iberian times, in addition to other rooms dedicated to prehistory, Roman times, Spanish-Muslim culture and Visigoda culture; and the Fine Arts Section that offers us a vision of sculptures and paintings from the 14th to the 20th century.

At the bottom is the machinery of a 19th century mill, faithful reflection of the production systems of the time, as well as original tools and useful. At the top you can deepen the culture of olive and oil, entering the world of the tasting ofextra virgin. There are rest areas, a projector with audiovisual to learn more about the olive cycle and the current production systems, as well as excellent panoramic views of the Fortaleza de la Mota, which rises imposing on the horizon, surrounded by the olive sea.

Finally we have a "Agro-shop" for sale of products as well as other typical jiennese products and a "Rincón Sensorial" to taste our oils. The entire facility has explanatory panels in English and Spanish. It is designed to be accessible to people with reduced mobility (lift, ramps...) and is heated. Free Wi-Fi is also available for visitors.

The museum, formerly called the Archaeological Museum of Obulco, has two sites. In the Boabdil Torreon of the Porcella Castle built in 1435 by the Order of Calatrava, there are rooms 1 and 2. The rest of the rooms are located in the city hall, the former Royal Posite of the 18th century.

SOLA 1: Paleolithic and Neolithic, with legal and ceramic tools. Iberian culture of the city-state of IPOLCA, with ceramic red bands, cinerary urns, bronze exvotes, coins and Iberian sculptures.

SALA 2: Roman culture of the Ibero-Roman city of OBULCO, with tombstones, ceramics, coins, Corinthian capitals of Obulco and Roman sculpture.

TERRAZA: Magnificent views of the countryside of Jaén and Córdoba. Location of the various fields of Porcilla (Cerrillo Blanco, Alcores, City of Obulco, etc.).

SALA 3: Ibero-Roman culture, with development of vertical themes (sculpture, economy, rites, etc.).

It includes a guided tour of the Archaeological Park of Cerrillo Blanco, where an Iberian sculptural ensemble was found that for its number of pieces, as for its enormous artistic quality is the most important of the Iberian sculpture.

The museum manages several musealized deposits: the prehistoric fortified remains of the Los Alcores (III- I millennium) and the archaeological site of Cerrillo Blanco (a funerary building of the 7th century BC with 24 tombs of inhumation in posa, where an Iberian sculptural group of the 5th century, exposed in the Museum of Jaén, was buried in large graves) and the site of Obulco (it shows the remains of a main street with Roman houses of the 1st century AD).