JUMILLA 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. 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. 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.

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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