Who is Ildefonso Espinosa?
It is a family business, located in the natural park of SIERRA MÁGINA, in Pegalajar (Jaén), which obtains its oil in a traditional way, by the system of cold centrifugation of the crushed olive, of the picual variety, from which oils are obtained, with a high content in oleic acid, polyphenols, vitamin E and, of great stability, very fruity, and slightly bitter, whose colour varies from intense green to golden yellow.
Our environment
Sierra Mágina is a mountain massif that forms part of the Sub-Baetic system and extends across the southern centre of the province of Jaén, its foothills penetrating into the province of Granada through the Sierra de Alta Coloma. Its boundaries are more or less defined by the Guadalquivir valley to the north, to the east by the river Guadiana Menor and the dehesas de Quesada, to the south by the river Guadahortuna and to the west by the river Guadalbullón.
It is made up of a main nucleus that exceeds two thousand metres: 2,167 m of Pico Mágina, Peña de Jaén (2,157 m), Cerro Cárceles (2,060 m), Pico Almadén (2,032 m), Cerro Ponce (2,005 m), Miramundos (2,077 m) etc. and foothills separated to a greater or lesser extent from the main nucleus: Alta Coloma, Sierra Cruzada, etc. Some of them stand out like islands in the sea of olive trees in the countryside, such as Aznaitín (1740m), La Golondrina, Etc. The relief is always very rugged, with slopes averaging 30% in some places.
The core of the sierra is under the protection of a natural park as Parque Natural de Sierra Mágina. It affects the municipalities of Albanchez de Mágina (formerly Albanchez de Úbeda), Bedmar, Belmez de la Moraleda, Cambil, Arbuniel, Huelma, Jimena, Jódar, Mancha Real, Pegalajar and Torres, with a population of around 50,000 inhabitants.
PEGALAJAR
Pegalajar is a Spanish municipality in the comarca of Sierra Mágina, in the province of Jaén, Andalusia. Part of its municipal territory is within the Sierra Mágina Natural Park.
In the town of the same name we find the arch of the Encarnación, which is a 15th century Gothic building and the church dedicated to the Santa Cruz, a 16th century Renaissance temple, which suffered great damage in the Spanish Civil War and of which we can highlight its bell tower, which is a remnant of the old medieval fortress.
