CASTRIL

Where Castril is located

Castril is a town in the province of Granada. It is located in the southwestern part of the region of Huéscar. The town of Castril is located at the foot of a steep hill, bordering the Natural Park of Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas Natural Park.

The parish church

The parish church is one of the most interesting buildings of Castril, with two covers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Moreover it has remains of remparts and towers from the Arab era and also preserves some parts of a Roman bridge built about two thousand years ago.

People ascending La Solana

The pilgrimage of the Virgen de la Cabeza stands out among its festivities, which is prepared on the next-to-last Sunday of April. The following Sunday is when they ascend to La Solana in procession, where the festive celebration takes place. But the celebrations that perhaps are more known are those dedicated to the Virgen of the Rosario. It takes place the first weekend of October and last several days.

 

A general view

The evolution of the natural elements, together with the human, has favored that both aspects are totally integrated in the landscape. At present, a rebuilt statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, facing at the village, constituting  the clearest sign of identity of the town. There are many remains at the top of the Peña of the medieval castle. 

The natural park

One of the luxuries that the municipal territory of Castril has is its sierra, declared Natural Park in 1989, mainly constituted of mountain of abrupt landscape and astonishing contrasts.

The Sierra of Castril and part of the Sierra Seca, both separated by the Castril River, constitutes one of the territories of the Andalusian Geography that by its natura.

Made in Castril

Fine glasses and at the same time popular. Villagers and cortijeros, and also lordships bought them. That is why the Castril glasses likewise appear in the hidden cortijos of the sierra, and in the shelves of the "Victoria and Albert Museum" of London. Today Castril's glass can be admired in the Archaeological Museum of Granada and also in several European museums. 

Jose Saramago and Jose Saramargo's library

The villa and the Nobel Prize for Literature José Saramago maintained a fruitful relationship, since he was named Favourite Son of the city because his wife was born there. The Municipal Corporation baptized its Library with his name. The following year he was granted with the universal Swedish prize. Since then, the "José Saramago Center" has been formed, with headquarters in Castril, from where it dynamize the entire northern part of the province culturally.