The Treasury Zumel Redondo

There was a Moorish king at the time Caliphate, which after the war in those years against the Catholic Kings, decided to bury his fortune to the southeast of the city of Jaen.

In the Cerro del Zumel Redondo, which has a cone-shaped hill is one in which there is a house of labor (farmers and ranchers). At its top is a Castillejo with a cistern in the seventeenth century was occupied by a hermit. This is where the legend of Zumel, the Moorish king hid his fortune before falling on the battlefield.

In the early twentieth century, a Frenchman and his son arrived in Jaén and began excavations in the area, perhaps driven by the desire to find the hidden treasure of speaking to the legend. The man fell ill and died without completing the job search. Her son returned to France, but before leaving he confessed to some people who had been close to them in the work, the secrets they knew about the possible location of hidden treasure.

This information is asked to be allowed to resume archaeological excavations, which were permitted in 1919.

Again conducted excavations began after the Spanish Civil War in 1940 ... but never found any treasure.

To add a double-story legend, there is also, without much rigor of fact, the owner of the land, fearing that people authorized him snatch the treasure hidden in their fields, hid in the bush all the money made in the sale of the harvest of 1936. The hard money from the sale of the crop got them into a bag of skin, and buried near where they were conducting excavations ... arrebatarían and not the real treasure.

If such a legend or not ... ... so it's a legend. Or is some real and there was still a treasure?. We will have to go through that area and mark the GPS position for the adventurous and curious will arrive there.

Author: Antonio Morales Carmona