The "Natural Monument the Pat" is located to the north of the municipality of Linares. To get to it you have to follow the A-312 autonomous road towards Arquillos, after the station of Vadollano we find a detour to the left - Vilch- that leads us directly to the site.

This is an area of special landscape and historical interest, since the beauty of the route of the river Guarrizas is joined by the existence of the Roman bridge of Vadollano, which is part of the route of the Via Augusta.

Just below the Roman bridge, we found the ruins of what was a chocolate factory, which used the driving force of the river water to generate energy.

If by anything it is characterized by Jaén it is by its olive trees. There are very old people and there are also large ones (which is not about their age) spread over different municipalities in the provincial geography. The uniqueness of the Arroyo del Ojanco olive tree lies, rather than its age, in its gigantic dimensions, so it has been proposed to be declared a Natural Monument of Andalusia. It is said that it is the largest olive tree in the world, and possibly it is, because the figures that cast its measures, referred to in the tab at the beginning of the article, tell us of a single copy. This should be added to its productive capacity, which is around 600 kg. olive per campaign (an adult irrigated olive tree usually does not reach 70 kg).

The two large branches (2.10 and 2.80 m of perimeter) that are bifurcan from its thick fuse bear all the weight of the cup, which becomes of such magnitude - especially when the fruit develops - which forces its dense foliage to rest on the ground at many ends of the cup. Anyway, everything in this portentous specimen is Guinness record.

So long a centenary history has generated some legendary accounts around this olive tree, as it was planted in the Roman era (which indeed built a magnificent villa a few hundred metres from Fuentebuena) or by friars after the Christian reconquest of these lands. Another version states that its size, so different from that of the olive trees around it, is because it was born from a blessed bouquet on a Palm Sunday.

To access the Fuentebuena olive, you have to go from the urban core of Arroyo del Ojanco to the local road JV-7.005 towards Beas de Segura. As you pass the crossing of Prados de Armijo, the olive tree is about 50 metres from the road.

Here we can observe plant species such as the whining, coscoja, peach, yellow jasmine, clematides, madreselva and so to complete a multitude of trees and shrubs among which the Arrayan de La Bañizuela, a unique specimen, stands out. The arrayan or myrtle usually has an arbustive bearing, but the one we find in the Bañizuela Forest stands out precisely for its large size and the thickness of its trunk, more specific to a tree than to a bush. Another element that has made possible the recognition of this space as a natural monument has been the characteristic of its soil: limestones, dolomies and margocalizas belonging to the Jurassic period.

The history of this sculpture and of the reason for its construction is due to the fact that in the 19th century, devotion to this image grew significantly, with Mayor Lucas Guillén being very devoted to it.

Therefore, after the destruction of religious images in 1937, it was decided by popular vote to erect this sculpture based on works such as the Christ of the Corcovate of Rio de Janeiro or the Sacred Heart of Jesus of the Cerro de los Angeles in Madrid.

It was performed by the Sales de La Carolina brothers in 1950.

This work by Javier Ruiz Abel is a tribute to those granadino and almerian miners who in the late 19th and early 20th century came to work in the mines of the Linares - La Carolina district, of which in our municipal term we have some unique examples.

These lines correspond to the Treaty of the Mountain, studied by the Duke of Almazan, a document that some researchers attribute to Jorge Manrique. To talk about the 15th century in the Sierra de Segura is to talk about the Manrique family and the border period. A situation in which attacks and responses by Christians and Muslims were frequent. This danger and the border situation can only be seen by entering Segura de la Sierra: remains of walls, towers, entrance doors and on top of the hill, the watchful castle.

The Visits Books of the Order of Santiago described in the late 15th century the castle of Segura de la Sierra as a military compound with weapons to face a siege or, if necessary, to organize a village to attack the enemy. We cannot forget that in 1434 Rodrigo Manrique organized a village to conquer Huécar in the Altiplano granadino.

In Segura de la Sierra, taking advantage of this privileged position and under the security offered by its walls is where Jorge Manrique was raised under the care of his mother, Mrs. Mencía de Figueroa, in the house that still today is preserved five hundred years later.

Built in 1980