Arroyomolinos
Leon County: Sierra de Huelva
Population: 1,061 inhabitants
Altitude: 609 meters
Physical Size: 87
km2 inhabitants: Arroyenco / a
Shield:
Arroyomolinos of León, located in a stony hills populated with oak trees, belongs to the jurisdiction of Aracena . Located in La Sierra, at an altitude of 609 meters and 172 kilometers from the provincial capital, Huelva. Its inhabitants are called Arroyencos.
main activity: cereals and olive groves. Vegetables and fruit.
Arroyomolinos de León is divided among several alignments, old synclines and anticlines, with special direction from northwest to southeast, dating from the Hercynian orogeny, between 200-300 million years ago.
A History from the thirteenth century, when the reconquest, after the abolition of the Order of the Temple, the city is repopulated by the Order of Santiago, the Priory of San Marcos de León, between 1230 and 1250 approximately. The Christian Reconquest reached this area and the Great Pelay Maestre Pérez Correa, belonging to the Order of Santiago, is leading the so-called Battle of the Caledon, on Mount Tentudía.
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Legend has it that the Master was winning the battle and saw that the night fell the Virgin asked him to stop the miracle of the day, with the familiar phrase: "Holy Mary, stop your day," Legend tells us that Madonna worked the miracle and stopped the day for Christian gentlemen could win the battle, creating after Tentudía monastery.
Years later, the area was repopulated by Spaniards, from the plains of León, Zamora and Salamanca, which used as access to the Via de la Plata. especially Leon. Formed the Knights of León with five villas on the frontier with the Arabs and the Order of Santiago became a major economic dominance in the area. The people who took part in the Knights were: Fuentes de León, Segura de León, Calera de León, Leon and Arroyomolinos Canaveral de Leon, belong at present the top three in the province of Badajoz and the last two to Huelva .
In 1485, the Order of Santiago Arroyomolinos disappeared and became part of the English Crown, namely the unappropriated lands of Sevilla and dependent on the House of the Marquis de Aracena until the nineteenth century. The feudal regime was abolished and during the various divisions manor, the town was to belong to other locales.
The proposed division of 1809 which organized the territory into departments were drawn in the Lower Guadalquivir. Subsequently, in 1810 and the invasion of Napoleon, another division is enacted and is framed in Extremadura (then a province only), depending on the prefecture of Merida. In 1822 the English Parliament again but put it into Extremadura in 1833, by Decree Law of 30 November, under the reign of Elizabeth II, Arroyomolinos of Leon is definitely framed in the newly created province of Huelva. At Fog County towns join Sevilla and Huelva province, and expressed disappointment that arroyencos feeling and Extremadura tradition was deeply rooted in the locality.
This population was part of Extremadura to año1834, when the territorial division, becoming part of the province of Huelva. In a letter to the City Council in 1835, the mountain village complained of the harm posed by his new unit, which involved a break with the traditional province of Badajoz. Their complaints were, however, neglected, alleging only the administrative difficulties posed by that time such a request. Until that date, the municipality of Leon Arroyomolinos had no mountain tradition.
Earlier this century there has been a considerable population growth due to mining Cala, with large deposits of iron
Leon County: Sierra de Huelva
Population: 1,061 inhabitants
Altitude: 609 meters
Physical Size: 87
km2 inhabitants: Arroyenco / a
Shield:
Arroyomolinos of León, located in a stony hills populated with oak trees, belongs to the jurisdiction of Aracena . Located in La Sierra, at an altitude of 609 meters and 172 kilometers from the provincial capital, Huelva. Its inhabitants are called Arroyencos.
main activity: cereals and olive groves. Vegetables and fruit.
Arroyomolinos de León is divided among several alignments, old synclines and anticlines, with special direction from northwest to southeast, dating from the Hercynian orogeny, between 200-300 million years ago.
A History from the thirteenth century, when the reconquest, after the abolition of the Order of the Temple, the city is repopulated by the Order of Santiago, the Priory of San Marcos de León, between 1230 and 1250 approximately. The Christian Reconquest reached this area and the Great Pelay Maestre Pérez Correa, belonging to the Order of Santiago, is leading the so-called Battle of the Caledon, on Mount Tentudía.
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Legend has it that the Master was winning the battle and saw that the night fell the Virgin asked him to stop the miracle of the day, with the familiar phrase: "Holy Mary, stop your day," Legend tells us that Madonna worked the miracle and stopped the day for Christian gentlemen could win the battle, creating after Tentudía monastery.
Years later, the area was repopulated by Spaniards, from the plains of León, Zamora and Salamanca, which used as access to the Via de la Plata. especially Leon. Formed the Knights of León with five villas on the frontier with the Arabs and the Order of Santiago became a major economic dominance in the area. The people who took part in the Knights were: Fuentes de León, Segura de León, Calera de León, Leon and Arroyomolinos Canaveral de Leon, belong at present the top three in the province of Badajoz and the last two to Huelva .
In 1485, the Order of Santiago Arroyomolinos disappeared and became part of the English Crown, namely the unappropriated lands of Sevilla and dependent on the House of the Marquis de Aracena until the nineteenth century. The feudal regime was abolished and during the various divisions manor, the town was to belong to other locales.
The proposed division of 1809 which organized the territory into departments were drawn in the Lower Guadalquivir. Subsequently, in 1810 and the invasion of Napoleon, another division is enacted and is framed in Extremadura (then a province only), depending on the prefecture of Merida. In 1822 the English Parliament again but put it into Extremadura in 1833, by Decree Law of 30 November, under the reign of Elizabeth II, Arroyomolinos of Leon is definitely framed in the newly created province of Huelva. At Fog County towns join Sevilla and Huelva province, and expressed disappointment that arroyencos feeling and Extremadura tradition was deeply rooted in the locality.
This population was part of Extremadura to año1834, when the territorial division, becoming part of the province of Huelva. In a letter to the City Council in 1835, the mountain village complained of the harm posed by his new unit, which involved a break with the traditional province of Badajoz. Their complaints were, however, neglected, alleging only the administrative difficulties posed by that time such a request. Until that date, the municipality of Leon Arroyomolinos had no mountain tradition.
Earlier this century there has been a considerable population growth due to mining Cala, with large deposits of iron
Heritage Bridge
Gitana On leaving the village, towards Seville, about five kilometers from the town, we stop at a small seating area, space is built next to an old bridge no longer in use but fully visible from the road. They
ordinary people that the name comes because once lived near a Gypsy woman with his family and one day unexpectedly found the gypsy head into a fountain.
Mills
The origin of water mills is uncertain, the documentary sources are scarce, what is clear is that settlements were made near the rivers. The water resources of the Sierra were much needed for supplies, drinking fountains, sinks and many towns, but more pronounced in Arroyomolinos de Leon, Water Mill.
water mills in the Sierra seems to be implanted in the mid-fifteenth century and its main development was from the mid eighteenth century. The documents identify two hundred mills scattered throughout the region, especially in Arroyomolinos appeared more than thirty. Currently there are 32 residues
mill on the banks of streams and Valdelamadera Abyss-Morena, aka the last cone "La Gitana", although some of them are in very poor condition. Some of the reasons for this abandonment are: the crisis of the activity of milling, after the Civil War, emigration and the search for other sources of income that got rid of the trade of miller.
grinding crisis occurs, as noted above, in the years following the Civil War, in these years was forbidden ground in Water Mill, having to carry all the wheat to flour mills. Although people prefer the flour was of higher Factory quality, many millers continued to grind on the black market at the time, working mostly at night to avoid detection.
The miller did not live normally in the mill with some exceptions, although they usually had a small mattress where you can lie down. Miller's life was subject to daily work, not only in the mill, but also in the care of livestock and the countryside, some of these activities took place in areas surrounding the mills, and the time spent was just grinding in few hours a day. Athanasius
Mill Down the road, we reached the height of the old flour mill, and now in disuse; your right, there is a path that leads to a recently restored old mill, it is "Athanasius Mill." Nothing more glimpse, we appreciate your dam and its hub, keeping inside the machinery that makes up the structure to pair with the educational content of its operation and history. The mill is owned by the municipality and for your visit we must go to City Hall.
There are other remnants of flour mills which can be seen within the resort, on the banks of Deep Creek-Morena, including highlight "Uncle Pompa's Mill" and "Uncle Galván" also visible from the road, street Antonio Machado.
Mills Road There designated routes to visit the mills, and can choose which of the streams want to see, if the Pit-Morena or the Valdelamadera. We say that the route crosses the stream of the Abyss-Morena, perhaps the most advisable for people not so willing to walk a lot because it is the shortest and part of its route is through the town itself. For good and adventurous hikers, Valdelamadera provides a more adventurous of Water Mill.
Shrine of Our Lady Virgen de los Remedios
From simple traditional Andalusian architecture of the seventeenth century, is the religious center of pilgrimage and folk in whose honor is held every third Sunday of May.
simple building dedicated to the patron saint of the town, the Virgen de los Remedios. Just before boarding the huge space that is, the Plaza de la Virgen, we see a pillar trough, on top of it, where there is a tile with the image of the patron saint of Arroyomolinos de Leon, being the around the shrine a place of great beauty.
History tells us that the chapel was built there, even though construction began on a street of the town, specifically the cross street, it is as a symbolic remembrance of forging a cross just in front of one of the houses, being the site that showed the image of the Virgin, after the onset, a shepherd found a little doll which took home in his bag, but when I got home, it was gone.
The next day, our pastor again found in the same place, and again took her, until he understood that the doll was the Virgen de los Remedios and decided to build a chapel to house, just across the street from the Cross. Here, the construction appeared collapsed the next morning, it seems that the Virgin did not want his shrine is located in this place, finally was built near the road to Sevilla known today as the "plain hermitage. "
The current building can be a reconstruction made around 1700 of an older building, which was added the chapel of the head, some time later. Once inside the temple, we stop at the pulpit of masonry. The image owner of the chapel, was made by Agustín Sánchez Cid in 1939 and restored in 1968 by Antonio León Ortega. As an anecdote, we can say that the condition of the sculptor to carve the image was that it bore the face of his own wife.
oral tradition has it that the Virgin appeared to a goat near the place where the shrine now stands. Thinking it was a doll I picked it up and home to a sister had, but when he opened the bag was gone.
The next day found her in the same place to catch it again and again to pass as the third day, tied up the bag but returned to spend the same wrist was not. Then the villagers saw what was happening thought that this was not normal or chance, but it was a miracle. So I decided to make a shrine in honor of the Virgen de los Remedios. The shrine is said to be the seventeenth century. The first image of the Virgin was burned on the night of 25 to 26 July 1936 by the madness of civil war. And where the Virgin Mary burned was the war where no grass grew back. Today it is covered by a pavement.
The current image was ordered to do in 1937 was paid for the help and effort of all the people. THE imaginero Agustin Sanchez Cid. This imager made an exception to the picture the face of the woman who had been his love. That is why ll the people who watch alerts you to your face, not every picture but a beautiful woman. Baroque sculpture is painted wood. All that remains of the other image is a partnership that ordinary people found in the ashes of having blown leads this picture in one of the fingers of the hand holding the scepter. Salves
There are many songs that sing to the Virgin but among them are those that sing it on 15 August at night coming out until early 16, one example being the salve: Pat
gate of heaven to ill health and remedial patron healthy
these people you call you
Oh Virgen de los Remedios !
All your children beg you to remedy our ills
and comfort our sorrows.
Cross Street Cross appeared
When the Virgen de los Remedios on the hill where now stands the Hermitage, was a saw thickets and woods and thought of making the shrine on the flat next to the ravine where the road now the cross.
construction started but every morning when you got the workers what they had fallen done the day before so they thought that the Virgin wanted the chapel where he had appeared but there was much Mt. So I moved the tools and built the chapel on the hill where it is now then he would make plain where a cross in memory wavered and there came the name of the cross street as known so far.
Church of Santiago El Mayor
Built in the seventeenth century, is the main building of the town. Its main entrance clear and simple classic lines.
is located on the part of the so-called Plaza de la Iglesia.
The church building is a unique, different from those found in other towns the Sierra that eighteenth-century tower can be seen here, this tower is replaced by a steeple with clock pierced by three arches that support the bells. The belfry, with its grand facade, the church does remind colonial convents of Mexico. The main façade is Mudejar and is framed by a rectangular frame, in contrast to the neoclassic façade that appears on one side and that is really the front door, in use, to the temple.
Once inside we find a classical building has been renovated several times, the current structure is dated by some authors as belonging to the seventeenth century and consists of three naves separated by pillars supporting a semicircular arches lowered, the head is square and has a dome. Although the temple is dedicated to the Apostle James, we will not see the same picture inside, except for a painting donated some years ago and located on the main altar of the building.
Inside, we can contemplate the image of San Antonio de Padua, patron of the town, an image that replaces the original that existed in the village and disappeared in the Civil War era. Notably
a baptismal font made of local marble capitals and a late Roman or Visigothic period, converted today in holy water of which is very interesting to see his etchings. The last
reform suffered the building, parishioners regained some of the decorative elements were in the choir, such as candlesticks, lecterns, etc.., in order to beautify the rest of altars in the church there.
Food and Stews Starters
Boronia.
Ingredients:
potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, onion, pepper.
Preparation: Boil the potatoes
and passed through the food mill. Garlic, onion, peppers are fried with tomato and spends all through the food mill. It puts everything together. Boil all a bit until it runs dry. Cooked
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Ingredients:
Chickpeas, old bacon, ham bone, fresh bacon, pestorejo, meat, salt, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic.
Preparation:
Pouring the chickpeas to soak the night before. Is put into the pot of beans, a piece of stale bacon, a ham bone, salt, tomato, a potato and some garlic.
is simmered for two hours.
crumbs off acorns.
Ingredients:
oil, garlic, red Pimineta, acorns, potatoes, water.
Preparation:
Place the pan with oil in the fire and fry the garlic, peppers and set aside. Fry the potatoes and turn away. It puts water and salt in the oil and then throw the acorns that have previously been peeled and grated, and you add the peppers, garlic and potatoes. It turns them until golden brown.
(This meal is in the forties when there was no bread.) Blood
tomato.
Ingredients:
Blood, tomato, onion, garlic, bay leaf. peppers, oil.
Preparation:
Blood Piggy grabs and congeals into a basin (ie, no spins). Then cooked with garlic, onions, salt, bay leaves and a little bit of water. Allowed to drain. Once drained, fry a lot of tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic and pour the blood into pieces and given a return with this sauce
Vegetables and Mushrooms Marinated beans.
Ingredients:
beans, oil, eggs, flour, bread, toamtes, vinegar, cumin.
Preparation: Boil
abuandante beans with water and salt. When you are a little soft, poena is pulled out and drain. By passing the beans are fried in flour and egg. In the oil fry the beans, that is, fry a head of peeled garlic. When fried, put in a wooden bowl and mash. Then two slices of bread fried in the same oil and mash well together withthe two raw tomatoes. After you check the water to cook the shabichuelas and moves everyone bine and appends it to the beans. If too thick water is added. Fried green beans are cut into pieces and thrown into the pot. You take a tablespoon of ground cumin. Rest are left to take taste.
are eaten cold.
chanterelles sauce.
Ingredients:
chanterelles, onion, pepper, garlic, bay leaf, tomato, white wine, oil, salt.
Preparation: Wash and chop
the chanterelles into pieces. Fry the onion, pepper, garlic, tomato and chanterelles is added along with white wine and bay leaf. Was set on fire until it is in oil.
Dulces, licores y postres
Bollitos de leche.
Ingredientes: Huevos, azúcar, canela, pan, aceite, leche.
Elaboración:
Se baten los huevos, se le echa azúcar, canela, y pan rallado. En una sartén se pone un poco de aceite y con la masa que tenemos preparada se hacen los bollitos e leche. En un cazo se pone un litro azucarada y se echan los bollitos para que se cuezan agregándoles canela.
Café de bellotas.
Ingredientes: Bellotas de alcornoque, sacarina cristalina.
Elaboración:
Se pelaban y tostaban las bellotas hasta hacerlas acrbón. Se molían en el molinillo y it made the coffee. It is sweetened with saccharin crystallized sugar because there was not.
mebrillo Sweet.
Ingredients: Quince, sugar, a glass of water.
Prepared
prepare the same amount of sugar quince. Peel the quinces and cut into small pieces, wash and drain them. In a pot, put the quinces and sugar with water, and put to cook until thickened. He moves with a wooden spoon. When thickened, ground and thrown into the containers that have previously been prepared.
Repápalos milk.
Ingredients:
bread crumbs, eggs, yeast, milk, lemon peel, sugar and ground cinnamon, oil.
Prepared
dough is made with bread and eggs. Made with a tablespoon balls and fried in oil. Milk is cooked with sugar, cinnamon and raw and lemon peel. Put the repápolos in milk and eaten cold.
Pole.
Ingredients:
flour, water, sugar.
Prepared
pot is poured into a cold water as the quantity. Add the flour and turn them until they get rid if lumps. You check the sugar, orange peel and cinnamon and set to simmer without stirring continuously so it does not nod. Religious Holidays
Fiesta Pattern San Antonio June 13
Maybe it's a more intimate and local party due to the date and who have not yet been the majority of migrants in the municipality and is therefore less crowded . On the feast of San Antonio will show a series of local traditions, including "candles", the night before the day of the pattern, in which the young men, mostly men, but increasingly women skip the candles burning with branches of rosemary and brought by Antonios Antonios Arroyomolinos de León.
Feast of the Patroness Our Lady of Remedies
Held on August 15. Large parties of the town, held again in honor of the Virgen de los Remedios.
They all inhabitants of Arroyomolinos de León, who still live here and those who had to migrate to other places, enjoy the holidays, are a time for tradition, religion, entertainment and remembrance, in which uan are going series of events beginning with the more fervently religious celebrations of the year and culminates with the traditional "bull of fire", which increasingly more people come from other localities that demonstrate their courage running alongside the fireworks attraction.
Verbena de la Virgen on 12 September
Day that is host to a popular Verbena, is that once was the day that they celebrated the feast of the Virgin, but that was changed to August. In this festival involving local folk groups and all the neighbors we are united again under the cloak of our patron.
Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Remedies
Third Sunday of May.
During these three days, shines Leon Arroyomolinos celebrating their pilgrimage in honor of its patron saint the Virgin of Remedios, commemorating the day that the new image of the Virgin came to the village after the former was lost in the Civil War era.
On Friday is the floral offering to the patron and begins to decorate the float that will carry it on Sunday to "The Mosque", country where we celebrate every year, and that's where all the people waited for the first in what may be called "The First Pilgrimage"
day Saturday is a popular festival in "The Walk."
And Sunday is the big day, at 8 am the target band plays through the streets of the town. And at 10 comes the Virgin to walk around the village before leaving to spend your day in the field. In the plain of Mariprao makes a stop at inviting a glass of fine to all pilgrims. Once
Mosque in the world enjoys a field day eating in good company. Afternoon contests are in Seville.
About 6 pm it is the way back. And on the 10 Year Old Virgin comes the Hermitage.
Velá near Santiago on June 25 In the plain of the church is celebrated.
Gitana On leaving the village, towards Seville, about five kilometers from the town, we stop at a small seating area, space is built next to an old bridge no longer in use but fully visible from the road. They
ordinary people that the name comes because once lived near a Gypsy woman with his family and one day unexpectedly found the gypsy head into a fountain.
Mills
The origin of water mills is uncertain, the documentary sources are scarce, what is clear is that settlements were made near the rivers. The water resources of the Sierra were much needed for supplies, drinking fountains, sinks and many towns, but more pronounced in Arroyomolinos de Leon, Water Mill.
water mills in the Sierra seems to be implanted in the mid-fifteenth century and its main development was from the mid eighteenth century. The documents identify two hundred mills scattered throughout the region, especially in Arroyomolinos appeared more than thirty. Currently there are 32 residues
mill on the banks of streams and Valdelamadera Abyss-Morena, aka the last cone "La Gitana", although some of them are in very poor condition. Some of the reasons for this abandonment are: the crisis of the activity of milling, after the Civil War, emigration and the search for other sources of income that got rid of the trade of miller.
grinding crisis occurs, as noted above, in the years following the Civil War, in these years was forbidden ground in Water Mill, having to carry all the wheat to flour mills. Although people prefer the flour was of higher Factory quality, many millers continued to grind on the black market at the time, working mostly at night to avoid detection.
The miller did not live normally in the mill with some exceptions, although they usually had a small mattress where you can lie down. Miller's life was subject to daily work, not only in the mill, but also in the care of livestock and the countryside, some of these activities took place in areas surrounding the mills, and the time spent was just grinding in few hours a day. Athanasius
Mill Down the road, we reached the height of the old flour mill, and now in disuse; your right, there is a path that leads to a recently restored old mill, it is "Athanasius Mill." Nothing more glimpse, we appreciate your dam and its hub, keeping inside the machinery that makes up the structure to pair with the educational content of its operation and history. The mill is owned by the municipality and for your visit we must go to City Hall.
There are other remnants of flour mills which can be seen within the resort, on the banks of Deep Creek-Morena, including highlight "Uncle Pompa's Mill" and "Uncle Galván" also visible from the road, street Antonio Machado.
Mills Road There designated routes to visit the mills, and can choose which of the streams want to see, if the Pit-Morena or the Valdelamadera. We say that the route crosses the stream of the Abyss-Morena, perhaps the most advisable for people not so willing to walk a lot because it is the shortest and part of its route is through the town itself. For good and adventurous hikers, Valdelamadera provides a more adventurous of Water Mill.
Shrine of Our Lady Virgen de los Remedios
From simple traditional Andalusian architecture of the seventeenth century, is the religious center of pilgrimage and folk in whose honor is held every third Sunday of May.
simple building dedicated to the patron saint of the town, the Virgen de los Remedios. Just before boarding the huge space that is, the Plaza de la Virgen, we see a pillar trough, on top of it, where there is a tile with the image of the patron saint of Arroyomolinos de Leon, being the around the shrine a place of great beauty.
History tells us that the chapel was built there, even though construction began on a street of the town, specifically the cross street, it is as a symbolic remembrance of forging a cross just in front of one of the houses, being the site that showed the image of the Virgin, after the onset, a shepherd found a little doll which took home in his bag, but when I got home, it was gone.
The next day, our pastor again found in the same place, and again took her, until he understood that the doll was the Virgen de los Remedios and decided to build a chapel to house, just across the street from the Cross. Here, the construction appeared collapsed the next morning, it seems that the Virgin did not want his shrine is located in this place, finally was built near the road to Sevilla known today as the "plain hermitage. "
The current building can be a reconstruction made around 1700 of an older building, which was added the chapel of the head, some time later. Once inside the temple, we stop at the pulpit of masonry. The image owner of the chapel, was made by Agustín Sánchez Cid in 1939 and restored in 1968 by Antonio León Ortega. As an anecdote, we can say that the condition of the sculptor to carve the image was that it bore the face of his own wife.
oral tradition has it that the Virgin appeared to a goat near the place where the shrine now stands. Thinking it was a doll I picked it up and home to a sister had, but when he opened the bag was gone.
The next day found her in the same place to catch it again and again to pass as the third day, tied up the bag but returned to spend the same wrist was not. Then the villagers saw what was happening thought that this was not normal or chance, but it was a miracle. So I decided to make a shrine in honor of the Virgen de los Remedios. The shrine is said to be the seventeenth century. The first image of the Virgin was burned on the night of 25 to 26 July 1936 by the madness of civil war. And where the Virgin Mary burned was the war where no grass grew back. Today it is covered by a pavement.
The current image was ordered to do in 1937 was paid for the help and effort of all the people. THE imaginero Agustin Sanchez Cid. This imager made an exception to the picture the face of the woman who had been his love. That is why ll the people who watch alerts you to your face, not every picture but a beautiful woman. Baroque sculpture is painted wood. All that remains of the other image is a partnership that ordinary people found in the ashes of having blown leads this picture in one of the fingers of the hand holding the scepter. Salves
There are many songs that sing to the Virgin but among them are those that sing it on 15 August at night coming out until early 16, one example being the salve: Pat
gate of heaven to ill health and remedial patron healthy
these people you call you
Oh Virgen de los Remedios !
All your children beg you to remedy our ills
and comfort our sorrows.
Cross Street Cross appeared
When the Virgen de los Remedios on the hill where now stands the Hermitage, was a saw thickets and woods and thought of making the shrine on the flat next to the ravine where the road now the cross.
construction started but every morning when you got the workers what they had fallen done the day before so they thought that the Virgin wanted the chapel where he had appeared but there was much Mt. So I moved the tools and built the chapel on the hill where it is now then he would make plain where a cross in memory wavered and there came the name of the cross street as known so far.
Church of Santiago El Mayor
Built in the seventeenth century, is the main building of the town. Its main entrance clear and simple classic lines.
is located on the part of the so-called Plaza de la Iglesia.
The church building is a unique, different from those found in other towns the Sierra that eighteenth-century tower can be seen here, this tower is replaced by a steeple with clock pierced by three arches that support the bells. The belfry, with its grand facade, the church does remind colonial convents of Mexico. The main façade is Mudejar and is framed by a rectangular frame, in contrast to the neoclassic façade that appears on one side and that is really the front door, in use, to the temple.
Once inside we find a classical building has been renovated several times, the current structure is dated by some authors as belonging to the seventeenth century and consists of three naves separated by pillars supporting a semicircular arches lowered, the head is square and has a dome. Although the temple is dedicated to the Apostle James, we will not see the same picture inside, except for a painting donated some years ago and located on the main altar of the building.
Inside, we can contemplate the image of San Antonio de Padua, patron of the town, an image that replaces the original that existed in the village and disappeared in the Civil War era. Notably
a baptismal font made of local marble capitals and a late Roman or Visigothic period, converted today in holy water of which is very interesting to see his etchings. The last
reform suffered the building, parishioners regained some of the decorative elements were in the choir, such as candlesticks, lecterns, etc.., in order to beautify the rest of altars in the church there.
Food and Stews Starters
Boronia.
Ingredients:
potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, onion, pepper.
Preparation: Boil the potatoes
and passed through the food mill. Garlic, onion, peppers are fried with tomato and spends all through the food mill. It puts everything together. Boil all a bit until it runs dry. Cooked
.
Ingredients:
Chickpeas, old bacon, ham bone, fresh bacon, pestorejo, meat, salt, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic.
Preparation:
Pouring the chickpeas to soak the night before. Is put into the pot of beans, a piece of stale bacon, a ham bone, salt, tomato, a potato and some garlic.
is simmered for two hours.
crumbs off acorns.
Ingredients:
oil, garlic, red Pimineta, acorns, potatoes, water.
Preparation:
Place the pan with oil in the fire and fry the garlic, peppers and set aside. Fry the potatoes and turn away. It puts water and salt in the oil and then throw the acorns that have previously been peeled and grated, and you add the peppers, garlic and potatoes. It turns them until golden brown.
(This meal is in the forties when there was no bread.) Blood
tomato.
Ingredients:
Blood, tomato, onion, garlic, bay leaf. peppers, oil.
Preparation:
Blood Piggy grabs and congeals into a basin (ie, no spins). Then cooked with garlic, onions, salt, bay leaves and a little bit of water. Allowed to drain. Once drained, fry a lot of tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic and pour the blood into pieces and given a return with this sauce
Vegetables and Mushrooms Marinated beans.
Ingredients:
beans, oil, eggs, flour, bread, toamtes, vinegar, cumin.
Preparation: Boil
abuandante beans with water and salt. When you are a little soft, poena is pulled out and drain. By passing the beans are fried in flour and egg. In the oil fry the beans, that is, fry a head of peeled garlic. When fried, put in a wooden bowl and mash. Then two slices of bread fried in the same oil and mash well together withthe two raw tomatoes. After you check the water to cook the shabichuelas and moves everyone bine and appends it to the beans. If too thick water is added. Fried green beans are cut into pieces and thrown into the pot. You take a tablespoon of ground cumin. Rest are left to take taste.
are eaten cold.
chanterelles sauce.
Ingredients:
chanterelles, onion, pepper, garlic, bay leaf, tomato, white wine, oil, salt.
Preparation: Wash and chop
the chanterelles into pieces. Fry the onion, pepper, garlic, tomato and chanterelles is added along with white wine and bay leaf. Was set on fire until it is in oil.
Dulces, licores y postres
Bollitos de leche.
Ingredientes: Huevos, azúcar, canela, pan, aceite, leche.
Elaboración:
Se baten los huevos, se le echa azúcar, canela, y pan rallado. En una sartén se pone un poco de aceite y con la masa que tenemos preparada se hacen los bollitos e leche. En un cazo se pone un litro azucarada y se echan los bollitos para que se cuezan agregándoles canela.
Café de bellotas.
Ingredientes: Bellotas de alcornoque, sacarina cristalina.
Elaboración:
Se pelaban y tostaban las bellotas hasta hacerlas acrbón. Se molían en el molinillo y it made the coffee. It is sweetened with saccharin crystallized sugar because there was not.
mebrillo Sweet.
Ingredients: Quince, sugar, a glass of water.
Prepared
prepare the same amount of sugar quince. Peel the quinces and cut into small pieces, wash and drain them. In a pot, put the quinces and sugar with water, and put to cook until thickened. He moves with a wooden spoon. When thickened, ground and thrown into the containers that have previously been prepared.
Repápalos milk.
Ingredients:
bread crumbs, eggs, yeast, milk, lemon peel, sugar and ground cinnamon, oil.
Prepared
dough is made with bread and eggs. Made with a tablespoon balls and fried in oil. Milk is cooked with sugar, cinnamon and raw and lemon peel. Put the repápolos in milk and eaten cold.
Pole.
Ingredients:
flour, water, sugar.
Prepared
pot is poured into a cold water as the quantity. Add the flour and turn them until they get rid if lumps. You check the sugar, orange peel and cinnamon and set to simmer without stirring continuously so it does not nod. Religious Holidays
Fiesta Pattern San Antonio June 13
Maybe it's a more intimate and local party due to the date and who have not yet been the majority of migrants in the municipality and is therefore less crowded . On the feast of San Antonio will show a series of local traditions, including "candles", the night before the day of the pattern, in which the young men, mostly men, but increasingly women skip the candles burning with branches of rosemary and brought by Antonios Antonios Arroyomolinos de León.
Feast of the Patroness Our Lady of Remedies
Held on August 15. Large parties of the town, held again in honor of the Virgen de los Remedios.
They all inhabitants of Arroyomolinos de León, who still live here and those who had to migrate to other places, enjoy the holidays, are a time for tradition, religion, entertainment and remembrance, in which uan are going series of events beginning with the more fervently religious celebrations of the year and culminates with the traditional "bull of fire", which increasingly more people come from other localities that demonstrate their courage running alongside the fireworks attraction.
Verbena de la Virgen on 12 September
Day that is host to a popular Verbena, is that once was the day that they celebrated the feast of the Virgin, but that was changed to August. In this festival involving local folk groups and all the neighbors we are united again under the cloak of our patron.
Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Remedies
Third Sunday of May.
During these three days, shines Leon Arroyomolinos celebrating their pilgrimage in honor of its patron saint the Virgin of Remedios, commemorating the day that the new image of the Virgin came to the village after the former was lost in the Civil War era.
On Friday is the floral offering to the patron and begins to decorate the float that will carry it on Sunday to "The Mosque", country where we celebrate every year, and that's where all the people waited for the first in what may be called "The First Pilgrimage"
day Saturday is a popular festival in "The Walk."
And Sunday is the big day, at 8 am the target band plays through the streets of the town. And at 10 comes the Virgin to walk around the village before leaving to spend your day in the field. In the plain of Mariprao makes a stop at inviting a glass of fine to all pilgrims. Once
Mosque in the world enjoys a field day eating in good company. Afternoon contests are in Seville.
About 6 pm it is the way back. And on the 10 Year Old Virgin comes the Hermitage.
Velá near Santiago on June 25 In the plain of the church is celebrated.
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