Quesada, Spain
Quesada is a Spanish municipality in the province of Jaén, in Andalusia. It is located in the Alto Guadalquivir region and its inhabitants are called quesadenses or quesadeños. It has an area of 328.7 km² and 5483 inhabitants according to the 2016.1 standard, although its population has gradually decreased in the last half of the twentieth century (in 1950 12,224 quesadeños were registered) .
The eastern and southern parts of its municipality are part of the Sierra de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas natural park. The source of the Guadalquivir River is in its municipal district, in the Cañada de las Fuentes. [1]
Tourism
In its municipal area there are caves with rock art, although they are not visited and the remains of a Bronze Age necropolis.
There are also the ruins of the Roman Villa of Bruñel, which preserves some mosaics the most spectacular of this site dedicated to the goddess Thetis (others are exposed in the Provincial Museum of Jaén), and these can be visited, next to what you can Be a paleochristian basilica.
More recently, it is the "Watchtower of the Infant D. Enrique" of the year 1314, located at the top of the port of Tíscar and which can be visited and from whose top a wide and beautiful [required appointment] landscape is dominated.
Tíscar Castle, which barely retains a tower in good condition, is next to the Water Cave, a true natural monument that has an impressive waterfall inside (except during times of drought). The legend places in this cave the appearance of the Virgin of Tíscar, patron saint of Quesada, to the king of Tíscar, Mohamed Abdón, in the fourteenth century. At the foot of the castle, on a plateau, stands the sanctuary of the Virgin of Tíscar. It preserves the primitive door of the Gothic style of the 14th century. Its interior is extraordinarily beautiful, [citation needed] with an altar made in painted terracotta by the artists from Orea y Baños and from Neo-Romanesque style. We also find rich gates of Granada from the 17th century, as well as votive lamps from the 18th century. Keep good paintings from different eras of great masters. The verses of Antonio Machado dedicated to the Virgin of Tíscar and the Sierra de Quesada are sculpted in the sanctuary square and on a stone slab. In turn it was a tribute to the Sevillian poet that the town of Quesada honored him in 1957. From the sanctuary and in the direction of the mountains we can visit the birth of the Guadalquivir river in the heart of Quesada within its municipal term.
There is a new building on Avenida de Almería where all the paintings by Rafael Zabaleta and his friends are available. Paintings from all periods of the painter are preserved, in a chronological way, which were donated by the heirs of Zabaleta to the town of Quesada. Currently and since March 28, 2015 it houses the Miguel Hernández Museum and his wife Josefina Manresa. [2]
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Quesada | |
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  Quesada Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 37°51′N 3°4′W / 37.850°N 3.067°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  Andalusia |
| Province | Jaén |
| Comarca | Sierra de Cazorla |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Manuel Vallejo (PSOE) |
| Area | |
• Total | 328.7 km2 (126.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 676 m (2,218 ft) |
| Population (2018)[3] | |
• Total | 5,303 |
| • Density | 16/km2 (42/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Quesadeños |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 23480 |
| Website | Official website |
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See also
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- ^ "Quesada (Jaén)", Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (in Spanish), 2019-08-16, retrieved 2019-11-08
- ^ "Quesada (Jaén)", Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (in Spanish), 2019-08-16, retrieved 2019-11-08
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.