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El territorio jiennense alberga, según la tradición, un buen número de riquezas por descubrir después de siglos escondidas y a la espera del hábil cazatesoros que dé con ellas

From Legends Anda Jéén Sobrado, the province oozes myths and, in the chapter of the oral tradition, the Olivos Sea can boast a good number of exciting treasures stories to get afloat.

Castles, hills, the unique houses of the Jiennense countryVirguerías in the style that, then, many searched and did not find or that, in some cases, they have not even aroused the interest of the hunters.But they say there are still, waiting for owner.

Collected from generation to generation, these stories in which reality and fantasy coexist naturally still awaken the curiosity of people who, armed with the officially prohibited metal detectors, scrutinize the soil of the holy kingdom waiting for 'singing bingo', or at least'Line', as Zahoríes interested in getting to work with a stroke of luck.

In this time of cryptocurrencies and online payment, lacontradejaén brand, today, a curious route of hidden chests.

A legend route

There are few customs writers here who have dedicated pages and pages of their works to such an attractive matter.One of them, Matías D. Ráez Ruiz, collects in his legends of Jaén and other stories a full narrative of charm related to the Jewish of the capital and that speaks of hidden wealth.

It is located in the Plaza de Blanco Nájera, once from the orphans and where one of the doors of the wall, that of Baeza, was located.

At present to the founding bishop of the Missionaries of the Divine Master (who had their first Jiennenses school facilities a few meters), it seems that in one of the bass of their missing homes an extraordinary event passed that, after time, it resulted inlegendary transcription:

"Some farmers asked to spend the night in the basements of a house that was on the corner and that was between Santa Clara Street and the Plaza de los orfanos. At midnight, the owner's daughter woke up alerted by strange noises that came from the partyLow of the house. "

According to Ráez, the young woman went to that area of the property without the farmers warning their presence, and observed that "they were around a sailing cape while pronouncing ritual words, saying which a gap was opened in oneof the walls. They entered the cave, which was in sight, and soon were loaded with bags full of coins. They turned off the candle and closed the open gap on the wall. "

What remains overwhelms, notice for navigators: "The girl waited for the strange visitors to leave the house and, the next night, in the company of her mother, she went down to the basement, turned on the already small cape of candle that had remained and returned and returnedTo repeat the ritual that the livestock saw the livestock, immediately opening the same crack that opened the night before. "

While the mother of the creature held the light source in her hands, the girl entered and flipped with what she saw (treasures to Mansalva);"But she entertained so much that she did not warn her mother's screams when she saw that crack closed when the Cape of Vela went out."

Or what is the same: that the girl must follow there, in that kind of gold cage four steps from the Arrabalejo where, who is encouraged, can solve a case of those worthy of Colombo as she fattens her accounts.

THE HOUSE OF THE SALAZARS

The remembered chronicler Manuel López Pérez, in his referential El Viejo Jaén, also alludes to another of the most widespread treasures stories in the city: that of the House of Salazares.

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It refers to a noble property marked with the number 2 of Abades Street, between the cathedral and the typical flat street or Francisco Coello;A one hundred percent of one hundred Jaén, with incredible views to the lodge and the southern door of Vandelvira where (the disappeared researcher has) for two centuries awaits a "large" hidden "treasure to subtract it to the formalities of inheritances and testamentaries"

Casa de Coqueto Patio chaired by a monumental fountain and whose initial floor comes nothing less than the former convent of San Francisco (today Provincial Palace): "When we start buying floors from this house, the patio was white; we took the stone, we cleanedThe columns, which were painted ... The stones of the ground are the originals ", in the words of Gloria Visodo, inhabitant of this beautiful property, to this newspaper.

Ráez offers details about the riches that someone found and of which he gave a good account: "Doña Ana widow. One of her children denounced her accusing her of having hidden part of the assets of the inheritance. The judge ordered the registration of the house, but nothing was found. "First assault.

The second continues like this: "However, Doña Ana spent that night in the company of a maid looking for an appropriate wall to hide the money. When passing before the husband's portrait, the maid told her that she would fail her attitude. The maid was fired[That, for speaking] and, a few days later, Doña Ana suddenly died [that, for bad, right?].

How did the fight end?Well, with the sale of the house for "eighty thousand hard silver from the time of Alfonso XII, a fortunon that nothing was known again ... or yes:" Some buyer pierced the walls in search and it is said that a modestFamily that lived there later, prospered and ended up moving.plus.

Outside the town center

Co -covered legends, the houses that dot the landscape of the province could not be left out of this peculiar route.One of them, in the surroundings of the capital, is known as Mariblanca Casería.It is (from the information offered by Luis Berges and López Pérez in his work Caserías de Jaén) of a construction located in the Zumel Bajo, one of those characteristic cerretes that as small hills cross the valley of the Arroyo de Valparaíso.

Property on his day of the Alcántara family and, later, of the doctor Andrés Álvarez Rubira (1898-1967), clarifies the book, the legend in question evokes the times of Muslim occupation: "

"The old men told the Moors, when they left Jaén, they had buried a fabulous treasure along with a low Zumel farDon Leandro Aguilar requested through the official duct of the monument commission permission to initiate 'archaeological excavations' next to the low Zumel, with the hidden desire to find the legendary treasure ", you can read in the publication, which sentence: which sentence: which sentence: which sentence: which sentence: which sentence:

"Nothing was achieved, except sparing money and energies."Something more than a century later, perhaps someone can recover that expedition and, with the means of today, even get better results.

Will those who stay in the National Parador of Santa Catalina know that, after their stone canvases, is there the solution to all their problems?And it is that if the renowned Arjonero writer Juan Eslava is paid, there was in the fortress, in a wall section of a no less set aside, a "a stone that represented a head of bull carved with a lot of primor for the ancients and,Under it, half worried her words for the centuries, a poster that said [sic]: 'in front of the ToroestáelTeosoro'.

For the 1987 Planet Award, this is a common allusion to many Alcazares of the province: "A gold king hid his rhiler layThe Pealeños say that in Toya's. Those of Cazorla who at hisTreasure, if there was. "Well that.

Be that as it may, Eslava affirms that "many people who knew the legend, the head of the bull and the inscription, went with peaks and shovels and filled with the noises of their work the ruinous loneliness of the castle."That until, tired of searching without finding an ochavo, he unloaded his fury against the testuz of the grass and charged it, yes.

There are not all those that are in these digital pages, but all who are, that Jaén, also in this, is a broad sea.

What to do if a treasure is?

For more than one, the question is answered long before asking it, it is a constraint: enjoy it!But those who want to avoid problems and do things properly, they have to keep in mind that any finding has its regulations.

The Civil Code contains different articles in this regard, but there is one of them, 351, which makes it worthy clearly:

"The hidden treasure belongs to the owner of the land on which it will be found. However, when the discovery is made in others, or the State, and by chance, half will apply to the discoverer. If the discovered effects are interesting for the sciences for the sciencesor the arts, the State may acquire them for its fair price, which will be distributed in accordance with what is declared "(art. 351).

As for search methods, care with metal detectors, which in regional legislation are prohibited at least at a minimum distance of two kilometers of archaeological areas, natural reserves, cultural assets, castles, churches and areas classified as cataloged as archeological sites.

The fine, in these cases, is large ... prudence, then, to see if in the end the search is more expensive than the finding.