Old Hospital Entrance, Calle Hospital, Cambil, Jaen, Andalucia, Spain

OLD HOSPITAL
The Old Cambileño Hospital is a building built in the second half of the 18th century, in which the exuberance of the final baroque or rococo style can be seen, recognizing it as one of the most baroque examples in the province of Jaén.

Its magnificent doorway, narrow and vertical, which despite its small size, encourages a vertiginous movement.

It is organized on two floors and an attic that protects a lobed eaves.

In the lower body, its door is linteled, with pilasters with geometric drawings and an entablature with a large cartouche in its center with the municipality's coat of arms.

From a cornice, with two large volutes of closed spirals at its ends, the second body rises, narrowing, framed by oblique geometrically decorated Corinthian columns and a large window hole that is closed with a convex grille in contrast to the façade that it is concave, which sharpens the baroque dynamism.

In the attic appears the coat of arms of Bishop Fray Benito Marín, with three pinnacles that emphasize the pyramidal verticality.

Cambil is a municipality in the Sierra Mágina region whose municipal term rises from the Guadalbullón River to the south, to the summit of Mount Almadén, the second highest in the province, located to the north. Cambil is watered by the Villanueva and Oviedo rivers, between fields of cereals, olive trees and fruit trees. It occupies an approximate extension of 140 km2.

Part of its term belongs to the Sierra Mágina Natural Park, which is part of the Subbética and offers beautiful and spectacular landscapes. As for the vegetation, holm oaks, gall oaks, the Aleppo pine and the Salta pine are frequent. Its rich and varied fauna is also important.

The economic activity depends mainly on the agricultural sector, in which the olive grove, the sheep-goat, pig, horse and poultry farms, together with the olive oil industry, make up the majority of the income of its inhabitants. The village of Arbuniel, due to its wealth of water and good weather in summer, is an area of special interest to spend a pleasant summer.

The oldest archaeological evidence in the municipality of Cambil is located in the Santa Lucía tunnel, on the slope that falls into the Guadalbullón Alto river, where burials from the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) were found. Due to lack of systematic research in this area there is no information until Roman times. References center around Arbuniel, where sarcophagi, remains of columns, capitals, etc., and various epigraphic inscriptions that place the Roman city of Vergilia in this place appeared.

The nucleus of Cambil acquired importance from the Islamic domination. In written sources it appears cited for the first time in the twelfth century. Qanbil was apparently divided into two small villages, separated by the river, each protected by a small castle, possibly little more than the very top of the cliffs, with some reinforcement.

In 1315 the infante don Pedro, Alfonso XI's uncle, snatches and occupies the castles of Cambil and Alhabar from the Moors. From this moment they will appear frequently cited in the context of the border struggles between the Nasrid kingdom and Castile. In 1365 it was conquered again by the Muslims and after several sporadic attacks, it was definitively conquered in 1485 by the Catholic Monarchs. The conquest of these two strategic military strongholds was not an easy task, since the siege formed by an army of 6,000 was necessary. men from Jaén and in which artillery was used massively for the first time on the peninsula. The conquest of these two castles, Cambil and Alhabar, left the road to Granada open.
The Catholic Monarchs, in gratitude to the residents of Jaén for their participation in the conquest, determined that the village of Cambil became part of the administration of the Council of Jaén. Situation that lasted until April 19, 1558, the date on which Felipe II emancipated Cambil from the administrative guardianship of Jaén.

Among the architectural heritage of Cambil, the Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation stands out, from the end of the 16th century, built in the Mannerist style. In its main chapel there is an extraordinary Renaissance altarpiece by Sebastián de Solís. The Old Hospital, on the other hand, built in the second half of the 18th century, is one of the most baroque examples in the province of Jaén. Also noteworthy is the cover of the Casa del Condestable, in the Baroque style, with a convex entablature and cornice, decorative fantasy, large lateral fins and, on the upper floor, noble coats of arms.

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Taken on: February 27, 2022

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