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Jumilla historical and area information.
The
municipality of Jumilla is located to the northwest of the Community of
the Region of Murcia forming part of the Region of the Plateau with
an extension of 972 square kilometres, and rises to 491 meters above sea
level. The geographic boundaries are north with the municipality of
Source Poplar and Alegre Mount of the Castle (in the neighbouring province
of Albacete), to the south with Abarán, Cieza, and Fortune; to the east
with Abanilla, Yecla and Pinoso (locality of also the neighbouring province
of Alicante), and to the west with Ontur, Hellín and Albatana (situated
also in Albacete).An
important wine growing region with 50 registered wineries, Jumilla is surrounded
by endless fields of vineyards. The town is spread out around the base of
a castle which presides over the surrounding area. The Church of Santiago
in Jumilla is a national monument worth a look with its gothic, renaissance
and baroque features. On Easter Tuesday, the Via Crucis in Jumilla is notable
for the Christ tied to a column that is carried through the streets.
In the northeast of the Upper Segura Valley, Jumilla is fairly isolated,
45km from Murcia and 55km from Alicante.
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The
average altitude of the municipality varies between 200 and 600 meters above
sea level, reaching its peak altitude in the Mountain range of the Carche
(1375 metres). The area experiences many dry spells, especially in the summer.
Arrival
from the Romans to the Iberian Peninsular in Jumilla resulted in the
system of centuriaciones, that is to say, drawing into squares and distributing
territories of culture between the legionaries once licensed of its warlike
tasks. This gave origin "vilías" (villas), that so abundant in the region
and that the rich material they have left us. We can observe magnificent
mosaics which are conserved in the Municipal Museum that belong to the Villa of the Cypresses , one of the best one studied and
can be dated to the 6th. century A.D.. Other documented villas are the
Norica, the Orchard of Peru, the Pedregal, the Marquina or Miraflores, to mention the most important. |
Also of Roman times can be seen the
Casón , Paleo Cristian monument of the fifth century of which
very few are conserved so well in the Iberian Peninsula. Also, of this time
is the God Hipnos , a bronze statue found near the Casón, and conserved
in the National Museum of Berlin.The
arrival of the Barbarian towns to the zone has been reflected in the topography
conserved to the present time and that indicates the earth distribution
(redistribution) carried out by the Visigoths. |
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The
Arab domination has left us abundant tracks, such as the the Castle being the important nucleus of the population on the hill in the
Castle giving proof of the definite establishment of the city. Jumilla
passed to Muslim dominion through the treaty of Tudmir or Teodomiro, signed
in year 713 between Abdelaziz and the count visigodo Teodomiro, governor
of the province Carthaginensia , later Kingdom of Murcia. |
During
the Muslim domination it emphasized the figure of Ibn Abd Sa1am ,
historian and costumbrista, born in Jumilla, and that was one of the three
great historians whom the Cora de Tudmir recognised, during the last period
of kingdoms of taifas, Murcia was governed by the independent little king
Abenhud. In
1610 was construted the street of the Third, Juan Lozano and Lozano (1610-1679)
when he was archbishop of Palermo and virrey of Naples under the reign of
Felipe IV a century later is born another illustrious jumillano (of the
same family Lozano), Juan Lozano and Santa (1731-1808), historian
and translator, who dominated with French soltura, toscano, Latin and Portuguese,
was canon of Sigüenza and Murcia and between its works emphasized, by their
relation with the zone, "History of Jumilla", "Bastitania and Contestania
of the old Kingdom of Murcia" and "Antiques of the Kingdom of Murcia ".In
century XIX with the French invasion, Jumilla and its castle were
occupied militarily and the population to create its own Meeting of Defense,
at first presided over by the mayor greater Jose You pledge Hevia, that
represented the preservative branch of the Meeting, but the representatives
of the clergy who were radical and they took the French position.
The Meeting arranged the harassing of the invading troops, resulting
in the sacking of the area. As a result of much political activity,
was restored the monarchy of Fernando VII.
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The population assumed the national policy in the Spanish civil war, of
Villa and Corte . This caused they honored personages like Miguel
Lozano Blacksmith (1842-1874), son of Jumilla and lieutenant carlista colonel
who took active part in the second carlista war. Indeed, the numerous carlistas
games were the greater preoccupation of the City council of the time. The
population was divided in liberal and preservative, republicans and monarchists,
ciervistas and albistas, etc. |
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