<< Our Photo Pages >> Chinchilla - Ancient Village or Settlement in Spain in Andalucía
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Multi-periodSite Name: Chinchilla Alternative Name: Espacio de biodiversidad, histórico y culturalCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 12.572 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Andalucía Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ronda Nearest Village: Jimena de la Frontera
Latitude: 36.429480N Longitude: 5.45918W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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You can walk or bike the gravelroad along the Hozgarganta River to the signposted Fábrica de Bombas. This ancient Artillery Factory (1779) has a 700 meter long canal. Almost at the end of it is this wonderfull Chinchilla Place. You can walk in through the gates and wander around.
This hillside has been inhabited since for thousand of years.
There are 2 caves with rockpainting - unfortunately not signposted, Chinchilla 1 and 2.
Since then it was inhabited by Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims and untill the middleages.
The roman city was named Oba.
In the place we can find cave paintings that can belong to the so called 'southern art' with schematic drawings in which a hunting scene with a hunter-archer and a deer are represented. The architectural remains of past cultures are innumerable, old stone walls, stones carved with square holes, a limekiln, wineries or commenly known as Tajo de la Reina Mora, which could be a Mozarabic church, due to the niches that appear carved in the rock as sacred relics.
We could not find both the caves, they seem to be pretty high where the rockcolour is yellow. Even on internet it was kept a secret location.
But the place appeals to your imagination, the stones with marks of water, the old brick walls, the carved squares and the riverside location on this side of the mountain.
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