El Palacio de Jabalquinto es la sede de la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) “Antonio Machado” de Baeza. También formó parte del itinerario lorquiano en su viaje de estudios a la ciudad y era propiedad de Juan Alfonso de Benavides, señor de Jabalquinto, cuyo hijo Manuel se casó con Luisa Manrique, hija de Jorge Manrique.
Vínculo con Antonio Machado
Vínculo con Federico García Lorca
Vínculo con Jorge Manrique
La Sacra Capilla de El Salvador, además de ser uno de los ejemplos más logrados del Renacimiento español, es donde se celebraron las últimas y solemnes informaciones conducentes a la beatificación de San Juan de la Cruz. Además, en la fachada de este panteón funerario está muy presenta Antonio Muñoz Molina con la representación de sus “juancaballos”.
Vínculo con Antonio Muñoz Molina
Vínculo con San Juan de La Cruz
As stated in the Act of the Virgin´s Descent to Jaén (Archive of the Marian Bibliographic Academy), on June 10, 1430, shortly before midnight, the Virgin descended to the city of Jaén, accompanied by a ghostly procession dressed in white. After a tour of the dark medieval streets, she stopped at the humble parish of San Ildefonso and the miraculous vision vanished. The church became the sanctuary of the Holy Virgin of the Chapel, Patroness of Jaén. That is, the place is chosen by the Virgin herself, which attracts many devotions.
The church, declared a Minor Basilica in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI, has its origin in the 13th century and its temple is made up of three façades: the oldest, in the Gothic style, is the one at the back of the church; the lateral portal, in the Renaissance style and the main portal (last to be built), in the neoclassical style.
This story does not escape Juan Eslava Galán´s attention, who implements it in his work The Templars and Solomon´s Table and whose chapter is cleverly titled: The Virgin who walked through Jaén.
(…) the astonished seven witnesses to the miracle saw a ghostly procession descending on Maestra del Arrabal Street of San Ildefonso, in the neighborhood outside the medieval city. (…)
The Templars and the Table of Solomon. Chapter 9.
Guided tour of the
En Baeza Pópulo Servicios Turísticos ofrece un interesante itinerario machadiano que acompaña con fragmentos poéticos y relatos de su estancia en la ciudad: el Instituto, la casa del poeta, el Palacio de Jabalquinto o la plaza de Santa María y la catedral, serán algunos de los elementos que podrás visitar, un marco perfecto para ambientar la vida de Machado.
Anota bien sus datos de contacto:
Pópulo Servicios Turísticos / 953 74 43 70/ populo@populo.es / http://www.populo.es
Actualmente no se ofrecen visitas tematizadas de Federico García Lorca en la provincia de Jaén.
Antonio Machado visited the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Tíscar, Patron Saint of Quesada, on excursions to the springs of the Guadalquivir.
The Sanctuary is located fourteen kilometers from the town, at the foot of the Peña Negra, with access through a winding mountain road. The Sanctuary has been a pilgrimage site for centuries (the current building that houses the Sanctuary was rebuilt throughout the 20th century on the remains of a primitive medieval hermitage). Inside the temple we will find the image of the Virgin of Tíscar, carved by the sculptor Jacinto Higueras.
In recent years the City Council of Quesada has been holding concerts of different musical genres on the first Saturday in August in the Esplanade of the Sanctuary. In addition, the villages of Tíscar, Belerda and Don Pedro celebrate the Fiesta de los Cargos or Dios Chico during December 26, 27 and 28.
Inside the Sanctuary, on the entrance esplanade to the temple, in homage to Antonio Machado, there is a stone poem dating from 1959 that refers to the Cordillera or Cuerda de los Agrios, a mountain thorn that collapses over the port from Tíscar and which runs parallel to the Cabañas hill, one of the main heights of the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y las Villas Natural Park:
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Old Songs
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In the mountains of Quesada
there is a giant eagle that is
greenish, black and gold,
with its wings always open.
It’s of stone and never tires.
(…)
The remains of the rock castle, built in the fourteenth century under Christian rule stand above the Sanctuary, in the Peña Negra, of which only the donjon is preserved. Cueva del Agua -declared Natural Monument of Andalusia by the Junta in April 2019-, is few meters down the road, with waterfalls and spectacular cascades, considered one of the most dazzling geological wonders of the province of Jaén, and which, without a doubt, Machado visited in his search for the sources of the Guadalquivir.
The Magdalena Church (originally the mosque of the city, converted into a church after the Christian conquest), is located in the neighborhood of the same name. The church, whose main façade and interior is in the Gothic style, was erected in the 16th century, being one of the oldest churches in the capital of Jaén. In one of the church towers you can still make out the old Arab minaret of the mosque.
The neighborhood, the fountain, the lizard and, of course, the Magdalena Church are constant literary resources in the work of Juan Eslava Galán.
(…) and thus they took him to a house that is near the said Church of Magdalena (…)
The Templars and the Table of Solomon. Chapter 22
The Institute of Jaen Studies (IEG), is an Autonomous Body of the Diputación de Jaén that has its headquarters in the Old Hospital of San Juan de Dios de Jaén, a 15th century building, and whose main function is the promotion and study of culture, science and provincial art.
Juan Eslava Galán has given his legacy to this institute. More than 8,000 documents from his personal archive (books, press clippings, videos, sound files and other varied objects) to serve as a reference for people interested in Jaén and in this specific author.
It is worth introducing the IEG in this itinerary if only to consult this extraordinary collection, but the author also takes advantage of any opportunity in his works to praise its history or enhance its resources, as does his wonderful library in The Templars and the Table of Solomon.
(…) I looked for archaeological information about those places in the marvelous library of the Institute of Jaen Studies, installed in an old hospital and Carmelite convent, with the comfortable reading room open to the silent cloister. (…)
The Templars and the Table of Solomon. Episode 2.
La Sacra Capilla de El Salvador del Mundo is an extraordinary funeral pantheon ordered to be built by one of the most important figures of the time, Francisco de los Cobos, personal secretary of Emperor Carlos V.
The pantheon has an important link with the Carmelite reformer because the last and solemn information leading to the beatification of Saint John of the Cross , the greatest and most enlightened of our mystics, was held here. The event occurred on September 6, 1674 by Pope Clement X, although the Decree was not issued until January 25, 1675.
The temple itself is one of the most successful examples of the Spanish Renaissance, where the most illustrious virtuosos of the time worked: Diego de Siloé as the author of the general designs of the temple; the incomparable Andrés de Vandelvira as master builder; Berruguete, author of the altarpiece of the main altar; Esteban Jamete, sculptor of the facade and the sacristy; or Francisco de Villalpando, author of the bars.
The castle of Santa Catalina, one of the emblems of Jaén, crowns the hill that gives it its name, from where you can see a unique and spectacular landscape of the city and its mountains. It also houses an Interpretation Center which offers a tour of its history.
The origin of the fortress is an old caliphate fortress from the 9th century, the Christian castle that has survived to this day was built in the 13th century. After the conquest of the city by Fernando III, its defenses are fortified and turned intoǨ-ñ. an important bulwark against the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.
The castle of Santa Catalina is a symbol for the people of Granada and Juan Eslava Galán continuously echoes it and introduces it in his works, as he does in Los Templarios and La Mesa de Salomón.
(…) During my stays in Jaén I had climbed several times to the castle of Santa Catalina. After unveiling the secrets of its builder, Alfonso X, I revisited it with a different spirit (…)
The Templars and the Table of Solomon. Chapter 18.