Linares, Jaén

City of Spain

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Municipality in Andalusia, Spain

Linares

Municipality

City Hall, Miner's Monument, Mining Derrick, Hospital of the Marquis of Linares

Flag

Coat of arms

Nickname:

La ciudad minera – The mining city

Motto:

Nunc coepi haec mutatio dexterae excelsi

Linares

Location in Spain

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Linares (Andalusia)

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Linares (Province of Jaén (Spain))

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Coordinates: 38°05′N 3°38′W﻿ / ﻿38.083°N 3.633°W﻿ / 38.083; -3.633
Country| Spain
Autonomous community| Andalusia
Province| Jaén
Government

• Type| Mayor–council
• Body| Ayuntamiento de Linares
• Mayor| Raúl José Caro - Accino Menéndez (C's)
Area

• Total| 197.5 km2 (76.3 sq mi)
Elevation

(AMSL)

| 419 m (1,375 ft)
Population

(2018)[1]

• Total| 57,414
• Density| 290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Demonym| linarense
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code|

23700

Area code| +34 (Spain) + (Jaén)
Website| www.ciudaddelinares.es

Linares (Spanish pronunciation: [liˈnaɾes][2]) is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, Andalusia. It is considered[citation needed] the second-most important city in that province and had a population of 56,525 in the most recent census (2021). The altitude is 419 metres (1,375 feet) and the total area of the municipality is 195.15 square kilometres (75.35 sq mi).

## Overview

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### Location

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Located in the Central-Western part of the province, the city of Linares is the second-biggest city in the province after the capital, Jaén. It is also the commercial capital of Sierra Morena, as well as the referential city in the surrounding areas.

### Geography

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The city territory is orientated in a NE-SW direction, giving the transition in altitude decreasing between the higher northern area of Sierra Morena; being Paño Pico (552 m) the highest area of the municipal territory; and the lowest area, the Guadalimar Valley in the South-Western limit, with an altitude of (318 m).

### Climate

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Paseo de Linarejos covered in snow in 2010. Snowfalls are very rare in Linares

The city has a Mediterranean Climate (Csa) clearly divided into four seasons, with hot and dry summers where the temperatures can reach frequently 40 °C, two transitioning seasons, spring and autumn, that concentrate most of the annual rainfall; and a moderate winter, with temperatures that can sometimes drop below 0 °C during night time, and occasional rainfall.

The annual medium temperature oscillates between 8 °C in January and the 27 °C in July. The daily variations can reach 20 °C.

The annual rainfall is about 500 mm, with frequent fluctuations along the years. Snow is rarely spotted in the city and storms, that are quite frequent especially around summer and early autumn, can cause hail and big amounts of rainfall in shorts periods.

Climate data for Linares, 420 metres (1,380 ft) 1971-2000 averages

Month  | Jan  | Feb  | Mar  | Apr  | May  | Jun  | Jul  | Aug  | Sep  | Oct  | Nov  | Dec  | Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)  | 13.4
(56.1)  | 15.4
(59.7)  | 19.0
(66.2)  | 20.8
(69.4)  | 25.6
(78.1)  | 31.7
(89.1)  | 36.6
(97.9)  | 36.0
(96.8)  | 31.1
(88.0)  | 23.6
(74.5)  | 17.5
(63.5)  | 14.1
(57.4)  | 23.7
(74.7)
Daily mean °C (°F)  | 8.3
(46.9)  | 9.9
(49.8)  | 12.6
(54.7)  | 14.3
(57.7)  | 18.6
(65.5)  | 23.8
(74.8)  | 27.9
(82.2)  | 25.8
(78.4)  | 23.5
(74.3)  | 17.6
(63.7)  | 12.3
(54.1)  | 9.3
(48.7)  | 17.0
(62.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)  | 3.1
(37.6)  | 4.4
(39.9)  | 6.1
(43.0)  | 7.8
(46.0)  | 11.5
(52.7)  | 15.9
(60.6)  | 19.1
(66.4)  | 19.1
(66.4)  | 16.0
(60.8)  | 11.5
(52.7)  | 7.0
(44.6)  | 4.6
(40.3)  | 10.5
(50.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches)  | 53
(2.1)  | 55
(2.2)  | 42
(1.7)  | 54
(2.1)  | 36
(1.4)  | 22
(0.9)  | 3
(0.1)  | 4
(0.2)  | 19
(0.7)  | 54
(2.1)  | 59
(2.3)  | 72
(2.8)  | 478
(18.8)
Source: AEMET[3]

## History

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Near to Linares is the ancient Iberian town of Castulo, which dates to antiquity and earned much of its revenue from the lead mines located there.

Hitherto a hamlet of the land of Baeza, Linares was granted township status in 1565.[4]

Around the middle of the 19th century Linares became an important mining center with lead mines nearby. The smelting of lead, the manufacture of lead sheets and pipes, and the production of by-product silver from the lead ores led to a significant population increase. The 6,000 inhabitants in 1849 became 36,000 in 1877. This commercial and industrial growth brought the concession of the title of city in 1875.

## Transport

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The city is well connected to the rest of Spain. The A-4 highway, NIV Madrid-Cádiz, is located 12 km (7 miles) to the west at Bailén. The A-32 highway, also traverses through the city.

There is a railroad station at Linares-Baeza, with lines connecting Madrid and Cádiz, and Madrid-Granada-Almería. The railroad has also a cargo deck.

## Economy

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The lead mines of Linares were in almost uninterrupted activity from pre-Roman times until the 1990s.[5] There were also lead smelters and gunpowder, dynamite and rope factories as auxiliary to the mining industry. Currently, the mines of Linares are protected as cultural heritage.

Santana Motor, the former producer of all-terrain vehicles for the Spanish Army, was shut down in 2011 due to the economic recession. There is also a factory producing trains (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles), a factory that produces components for wind turbines (Grupo Daniel Alonso y Gamesa), and a beet sugar plant (Azucareras Reunidas de Jaen S.A.), that produces biodiesel from colza oil, palm oil, soybeans, and sunflower oil.

## Sport

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Historically the town was always represented by a professional football team, however as the teams folded new ones came to replace them, producing a long timeliness of continuous clubs since 1909: SG Linarense (1909–20), Linares FC (1920–29), Gimnástica Linarense (1929–31), Linares Deportivo (1940–46), Atlético Linares (1946–48), CD Linares (1952–64), Linares CF (1961–90), CD Linares (1990–2009) and Linares Deportivo (2009–present).

Linares was also the place where the annual Linares chess tournament was held.

## Education

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The city has also a recent university campus known as the Scientific-Technological Campus, opened in 2015, that offers a wide range of engineering studies, belonging to the University of Jaén since 1 July 1993.

## Personalities

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The bull ring in Linares is famous for the death in 1947 of bullfighter Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez). On 28 August every year, people place flowers on his statue in Linares. Manolete's death is remembered in the ring by putting a bunch of roses in the place where he fell.

Linares is the birthplace of classical guitarist Andrés Segovia, singer Raphael and the hometown of jazz vocalist Virginia Maestro and Blessed Manuel Lozano Garrido, who was beatified on Saturday 12 June 2010 in Linares. Also, it is the hometown of the writer Fanny Rubio[6]

## International relations

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See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Spain

### Twin towns – Sister cities

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Linares is twinned with:

* Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico
* Linares, Maule, Chile
* Linares, Nariño, Colombia
* Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland
* Castres, France

## Notes and references

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1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. ^ "Las marcas que identifican el habla de la tierra del ronquío". Diario Jaén (in Spanish). 2012-10-28.
3. ^ "Datos de la Agencia Estatal de Meteorología: Visor de atlas climático de España peninsular y Baleares" (in Spanish).
4. ^ Castillo Armenteros, Juan Carlos; Gutiérrez Calderón, María Victoria (2012). "Ponencia marco: Los años enigmáticos: la aldea de Linares, desde sus orígenes hasta la independencia de Baeza (1565)" (PDF). Actas I Congreso de Historia de Linares. Diputación Provincial de Jaén ; Centro de Estudios Linarenses. ISBN 978-84-695-4129-6.
5. ^ Miguel Calvo Rebollar (1928). Minerales y Minas de España, Vol.2 Sulfuros y sulfosales (hardcover) (1st ed.). Vitoria, Alava (Spain): Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava. pp. 293–301.
6. ^ "Descubre los pueblos con más encanto de Jaén". Vipealo. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

## External links

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