El Cortijo Cabriñana

The Saw of Cordova, very near the city, was the place chosen by Romans and Arabs for the rest and freshness in the summers days. Possibly of so remote epochs date the house later called of Cabriñana.

Of the 16th century the first documentary references remain. The place was called San Benito's Valley at the time and was property of D. Francisco de Góngora, Chaplain of the Cathedral of Cordova and member of an important family of the city. He was this personage the one that gave economic aid to his nephew: Luis de Argote and Góngora, the celebrated poet native of Cordoba, in order that he was reaching your studies and also he was who forced him to his death, for testament, to place his mother surname with preference to the paternal one, and to go on to the history as D. Luis de Góngora y Argote.

Since then, and fulfilling D. Francisco's will, the farmhouse turned into primogeniture, male happened successively for a testament always to the major son, without it could be segregated, to be donated or to be sold

Also in the 16th century, San Benito's Valley was frequented by an important personage of the epoch: Fray Luis of Granada, who wrote his Book of the Prayer and the Meditation, on the banks of the creek that rubs the house and that to the present day Luis knows himself as the Monk's creek.

In the middle of the 18th century the estate received the name of " Marquess of Cabriñana ", on having belonged to D. Bernardo de Argote and Sousa, Marquess of Cabriñana and Villacaños, who remodelled the farmhouse, constructing an oil-mill for the grinding and pressing of olives, and a warehouse of enormous vats. Another Marquess of Cabriñana, D. Ignacio Juan Martínez de Argote and Mosquera, controversial personage of his epoch, prosecuted by his liberal opinions, by what he was even imprisoned, could sell the estate on January 18, 1849, on having fallen repealed the Law of Bull.

In 1904, when Cabriñana belonged to D. Agustín Pareja and Salt mines, a young painter at the time, friend of the family, Julio Romero de Torres, approached with his linens and paintbrushes to portray a daily scene of the epoch: women gathering olives. It is a question of a picture, "Aceituneras", very specially inside the extensive work of the painter, in all that that was identical with plenary session I stand out and corresponds to an impressionistic style.

To the beginning of the Spanish civil war, the Farmhouse was bombarded, and destroyed the roof of the mill of oil. This one was restored later and thanks to it it remains in acceptable condition and with all your elements, an enormous press of girder, an alfarge with conical lock, a boiler of copper and a warehouse of semiburied vats.

In the 70s, it was used for the filming of an episode of the series Curro Jiménez, as scene of the adventures of the most television bandolero.

In the year 1998, it was begun to rehabilitate for the use of farm - school, and later for rural lodging..

Cortijo Cabriñana is an authentic farmhouse, rural traditional Andalusian housing.

The lodging is located in the former house of the 16th century, having wide dining room, collective bedrooms for groups, and double bedrooms, showers, bathrooms, classrooms - workshops, court, and lunchroom with viewing-point.