Jabalquinto, STEP BY STEP, "TRIP TO THE CAVES OF THE 60 Jabalquinto" New section in the Web Jabalquinto.biz, Olayo Sheriff Gonzalez gives us every two weeks has all the readers who visit the Web a section where you can discover charming corners of Jabalquinto this week, "TRIP TO THE CAVES OF THE 60 Jabalquinto."
Current View of the entrance to one of those caves
Recalling the origin of this name comes from the Arabic "Jabal Cantix" or in the opinion of Professor Aguilera Pleguezuelo a hybrid Jabal consisting of "Jabal" mountain and the term Hispanic, Latino, fifth, and monte mean anyway fifth, started the second stage of tour by Jabalquinto, remembering those caves.
Until the sixties, the caves were the predominant housing Jabalquinto. Were distributed around the hill over three floors, according to some sources, reached five hundred. Currently, these shacks have been built are hidden by front of them. However, the entry is still visible and some fireplaces.
Excavated on the hill is composed of a room followed by another. At the end is the block, where was the donkey, goat, chicken, and even straw. This type of housing were the protagonists of numerous landslides, killing and hardship in times not far yet.
I witnessed the following paragraphs published at the beginning of the sixties in New Life:
"I come from another world. I say that I come from a different world from ours, which you know and know. It was night when I went there, and the three floors of the mountain - three rows of caves there were no fires, no laughter ... -. "That is unimaginable. How light can love people who are born and die in the cave?. The light that illuminates the perforated ground, cracking and threatening. The light, fear talonea each room on the ground. The flicker of a candle, I have come to walls that are not like the walls of our homes, whether white with lime. " "Look: a bed and here again, next. For in every bed we sleep eight. We are two families, and we do not touch anything. But they collapsed the cave and what do we do?. "Jabalquinto caves are not suitable for tourism, or to study or vocation."
fireplace built into a cave housing
"I was at the door of the cave, sitting, sewing clothes. The sun was beautiful. Had come to sit at the entrance of the cave because that morning was, in truth, good morning sun. Her husband in the field working. As every day. The six kids running around there. Playing in the sun when the collapse began. A noise as if the mountain collapsed. She, like a hen sheltering her chicks under her wings, ran to their children, and embraced them. Embraced them, and their children embraced the mother and she, looking terrified the mountain sinking, tired of being so long hill. Suddenly, he realized that he had only five children huddled around her, and let go of the arm and through the dust of the mountain collapsed in front of the cave, he knew his Manolo had died. Until it arrives. I do not know how long that lasted perhaps half an hour, was standing by the door with his arms crossed. At the sound would run into the street, but before reaching the avalanche hit him. And we found it so with open arms and face down. "
"That is unimaginable. How light can love people who are born and die in the cave?.
The dim light of a candle, I approached those enormous flat, cracked and broken off, and I have not dared to be felt in the vein open their gaps, because they fall.
Some of those candles that lit the caves
Housing
were predominant in the minds of those people, as evidenced by the following songs collected by mouth
Venimos de Fuerte del Rey
que es un pueblo muy bonito.
Hemos pasado por Mengíbar
y hemos llegado a Jabalquinto.
Al pasar por el llano
nos dicen los de las cuevas,
Muchachos portarse bien,
vais a ganar muchas perras.
(Canción de comparsa trasmitida por vía oral por Julio Molina Rodríguez)
Me han cogido de la mano
me han metido en una cueva
me ha puesto de cena, perdices, conejos…
de toda ave que vuela.
Bleak outlook
narrated in the previous paragraphs, to be published in the journal "Cara y Cruz" and broadcast on "New Life" had much national impact to the extent that many families sent financial contributions, together with government grants and free labor made possible the construction of houses in "The Nativity." Area she has spread the town and will be leading our tour in the next installment. Sheriff Gonzalez Olaya