Located at a high height, embedded in a rock, around a rock, at the entrance to the Sierra de Segura, Chiclana is spread through the streets of the mountains, capricious corners and improvised squares, with the smell of the carnations and geraniums of its balconies and windows. It is accessed through a surprising tunnel that introduces us directly into the aura of its medieval mystery. This beautiful town, despite the historical avatars so negative to its heritage - such as the destructive retaliation of the Napoleonic troops, the fratricidal raging of the carlists, or the virulence of the hurricane that destroyed the church tower - retains the original Hispanic-Muslim structure of its urbanism, the medieval typology of its homes, and an unexpected architectural surprise, the buildings excavated in the stone, trogloditic wisdom that makes it possible to have houses with a uniform temperature throughout the year.

Like the other municipalities of the region, it is located between the mountain and the Guadalquivir valley. Its fundamental economy is the olive tree, although it has an incipient tourist development

The waterfall is located next to the Falcones (1448 m), mountain always visible from any street of Cazorla, and a natural stone wall "Los Castellones" (1,820 m), elevation as a fortress from where it is named. To appreciate the water leaps it will be necessary to climb up a narrow path that runs next to the slope of the stream where you will be accompanied by the cornicabra (Pistacia terebinthus), a very abundant species on this path. By moving along the path you will appreciate the impressive fall of water as soon as the limestone walls serve as slides.

We suggest:

• Next to the bridge from where the waterfall is seen, a right-hand road leads us to the control of Riogazas. It is a pleasant walk in which you will find a fountain called "The River" and another beautiful waterfall, that of the Magdalena. From here goes down a road to Cazorla.

In the Iruela you have to reach the square of the City Hall from where the road ascends towards the hotel Riogazas. 5 km from the Iruela and after two lookouts with meringeros there is a bridge. To the left we can see the Cascade of the Escaleruela.

Information and Observations

• We will have to leave the vehicle at the entrance of the lane because there is a barrier to avoid the passage of vehicles.
• The property through which the lane passes is private so it is not allowed to enter the lane with vehicle.

The upper part of the Borosa River, has a scalated profile for the development of pozas and waterfalls in which travertine terraces are formed with spectacular botroidal calcite morphologies that were precipitated during the most humid and warm periods of the Quaternary.

Although travertine appear throughout the river, the highest concentration is located in the sector between the organ jump and the electric power plant. Its formation is due to the precipitation of calcite caused by the tear-up of the river waters produced by the turbulent regime of the water leaps in the areas with the greatest slope. This precipitation occurs in areas of dense vegetation receding elements of plants and producing subvertical sheets known as cascade facies.

The Houses of Front were conceived as a strip, that is, as a public building of commercial services, although today it is in private hands. The façade has a horizontal structure of three bodies: the first - formed by a gallery of seven arches on pilars - follows the typical structure of the stand, present in a large number of Spanish public squares.

The main floor shows its holes with balconies and shields at the extremes, while the discharge is transformed into a gallery with half-point arches, larger than those of the City Hall.

The house was part of the majority created in 1571 by Doña María Baltodano, wife of Don Gome de Cárdenas. It will be Elvira Cárdenas Baltodano and her husband Don Luis Valdivia Figueroa, gentleman of Santiago, who begin the construction of the said house.

Two elements of very different use make up the house of the Children of Don Gome: the house of the inhabitants and the cavalry. On the façade of the house, built in a plane more advanced than that of the cavalry, stands out its porta-tower, built unlike the other elements of the set in sandstone. Portada- tower that was built in the second third of the 17th century by Don Gome de Valdivia, Cárdenas and Guzmán and Doña Mayor Nicuesa and that is formally framed in the Baroque style.

The façade, retranqued with respect to Maestra Street, is preceded by a spacious square, which was public until 1848, year which was annexed to the house and closed with a wall lined with door and half-point vanos.

The pillow cover is almost unnoticed by the exuberant decoration, two Indian-accent, repetitive heraldic, and a highlighted cornice, as more prominent elements. Inside are preserved the cavalry with part of the fish, a porticated courtyard and the winery.

The building currently has a cultural use, in it is located the Archaeological Museum Professor Sotomayor, is the seat of the courses of the University of Autumn of the University of Jaén and the corporation performs the plenums in the hall of the Caballeros

The arch of the cover of access to the porticated courtyard of the House of Palacio has two nobility shields, the one on the left corresponds to the Ponce de León, while the right belongs to the Condes de Garciez, for the fourth count was Lord of Mengibar. This main front is crowned with contemporary stone almenillas. After the arch, a beautiful courtyard is raised, composed of three half-point arches, a bit of brick, which rest on pillars. On the north front the main entrance of the house is raised with a simple cover with armchairs in the jambas and a lintel with cross in the center and the date of 1,663.

In 1808 Casa Palacio became a key space in the context of the Mengibar Action. The house served as accommodation for the troops led by General Reding. In the current dining room, we can see how the weight of the weaponry damaged the structure of the building and large wooden beams are preserved as points.

The house was acquired in the late 19th century by the family of the Girl. The members of this family gave the building the architectural and decorative aspect it has today. In the first decade of the 2000's, it became a hotel. Years later, the City of Mengibar would buy the property.