Hello from Madrid

[LorenaValdivia]

Hello everyone from Madrid, Spain.

I have been hunting shiny objects for more than 5 years and I am glad I found a forum on this subject.

PS: I have a group of friends with whom we hunt treasures, I will introduce them to you soon: D
PS2: My english is terrible, still improving it

 

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[CoinFetcher]

I’ve spent about a week in Madrid, I enjoyed myself. Beautiful city and mountains. I wish I had my metal detector with me :-)

 

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[ArfieBoy]

Welcome to the forum from the mountains of N.E. Oregon! Glad to have you aboard and look forward to your posts from Spain!

 

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[RustyGold]

Welcome to TreasureNet Lorena. Best of luck!

 

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[Almanzor]

Greetings from Ja?n! Here a hunter following the trail of the Legend of the Almanzor treasure. I leave you a preview, but the story goes much further and the most interesting thing is not found in Google. If you want more information, do not hesitate to contact me, I would be happy to hunt with you and yours friends:

GALLARIN AND THE TREASURE OF KING ALMANZOR

Within the municipality of Noalejo, but very close to Arbuniel, is the Cortijo de la Torre, at the foot of the Atalaya hill, named for the small Arab construction that once stood on its top and from which today they are barely distinguished the ruined walls of its foundations. Not long ago, an old man from Noalejo told me the story of a certain Moorish king who inhabited these places and of a great treasure that this land keeps in his bowels.

At the time of the greatest Muslim splendor, this farmhouse was in the power of a Moor named Gallarin (14), who had appropriated an extensive territory throughout the region at the expense of the Conquest. Next to his place of residence and on top of a hill he had ordered the construction of a tower from where he could see a wide territory strewn with fortresses and watchtowers whose smoke warned him of the dangers of enemy incursions.

This Moorish gyrfalcon had the friendship and trust of a very important character, King Almanzor, that leader who had won more than eighty battles, and he frequently received visits from him in his hidden corner of Sierra M?gica. In one of them, Almanzor, as a premonitory gesture of the tragic end of him in Calata?azor, proposed to hide in some secret place of his property all the treasures that he had accumulated throughout his forays through the peninsular soil.

Thus it was that with the assistance of the closest subjects of Gallar?n they excavated a deep underground with suitable chambers where Almanzor was placing all his wealth. Among them stood out the nine horses loaded with gold and the famous necklace of the Queen of Naples, it also introduced abundant weapons, swords, mounts, etc., as if to provide a great army and, in addition, a portrait of all the Moors who during centuries they had crossed the strait to step on Spanish land (15). But once the work was finished and after the entrance to the cave was completely camouflaged, Almanzor rejected his friend and engineered a betrayal that ended with the death of Gallar?n and all his collaborators. He demolished his palace and the watchtower that he had built on the mountain, to such an extent that there was no trace that the land had been populated at any time.

It was not long when the Arab minister had to leave Segovian lands defeated and persecuted until he met death at the gates of Medinaceli, leaving his treasure anonymous forever.

According to my septuagenarian informant, that when he was young he had worked a lot in this farmhouse, a very wealthy woman lived near Cambil who was very friendly with the bishop of Ja?n. She often visited the prelate and brought him good gifts. On one occasion, the bishop, in return for her friendship, gave him a copy of the will of King Almanzor, which was in the Archives of the Jaen cathedral. The curious thing about this document was the precise description it gave of a very specific place located some thirty kilometers from the capital, and which according to a unanimous opinion could very well be a treasure.

This woman kept the document in her farmhouse with the idea of ​​one day paying a little attention to it, something that never happened, because soon after a serious illness ended her life. The farmhouse then passed into the hands of the patrons of my interlocutor and guide in this story, being present when the new owners discovered the document. They read it aloud, not at first understanding its meaning, and when they suspected what it might be they jealously guarded the paper where no one could find it. But they did not have the alert memory of her girl, that she learned the text in a row and that it would be as follows:

Five leagues from Ja?n, site of the Tower, the most important landmarks: the hill of the Cabras and the castle demolished in the watchtower that can see seven towers. The land that exists there has fingers and tips and stripes on the stones. A black tree with a very thick trunk and some sloes. Three stone mogotes made by human hands, one in front of Coloma and the others next to it. From one of them a stone track descends, when it ends, three meters in the direction of the rising sun, a stone as wide as it is long covers a hole and then a wide and long corridor, do not pay attention to what you see or hear Keep going until you see, at the end, two large poyos.

At first the investigations were directed to the castle of Arenas, in the term of Campillo de Arenas, where, according to what they say, more than a fortune has been wasted digging tunnels in the surroundings, and even the life of some unfortunate who risked it by going up its dangerous walls.

As nothing was found, the surveys changed scenery, taking place more recently in the Cortijo de la Torre, without us knowing of any important discovery to date.

GALLARIN Y EL TESORO DEL REY ALMANZOR

Dentro del t?rmino municipal de Noalejo, pero muy cerca de Arbuniel, se encuentra el Cortijo de la Torre, al pie del cerro Atalaya, llamado as? por la peque?a construcci?n ?rabe que en otro tiempo hubo en su cima y de la que hoy apenas se distinguen los muros arruinados de sus cimientos. No hace mucho, un anciano de Noalejo me cont? la historia de cierto reyezuelo moro que habit? estos lugares y de un gran tesoro que esta tierra guarda en sus entra?as.

En la ?poca de mayor esplendor musulm?n este cortijo estaba en poder de un moro llamado Gallarin (14), que se hab?a apropiado a costa de la Conquista de un extenso territorio en toda la comarca. Junto al lugar de su residencia y en lo alto de un cerro hab?a mandado construir un torre?n desde donde divisaba un amplio territorio sembrado de fortalezas y torres vig?as cuyas ahumadas le advert?an de los peligros de incursiones enemigas.

Contaba este gerifalte moro con la amistad y la confianza de un personaje muy principal, el rey Almanzor, aquel caudillo vencedor en m?s de ochenta batallas, y con frecuencia recib?a sus visitas en su escondido rinc?n de Sierra M?gica. En una de ellas, Almanzor, como un gesto premonitorio de su tr?gico final en Calata?azor, le propuso esconder en alg?n lugar secreto de su propiedad todos los tesoros que hab?a acumulado a lo largo de sus correr?as por el suelo peninsular.

As? fue que con la asistencia de los m?s allegados s?bditos de Gallar?n excavaron un profundo subterr?neo con c?maras adecuadas donde Almanzor fue colocando todas sus riquezas. Entre ellas destacaban los nueve caballos cargados de oro y el famoso collar de la Reina de N?poles, tambi?n introdujo abundante armamento, espadas, monturas, etc., como para dotar a un grandioso ej?rcito y, adem?s, un retrato de todos los moros que durante siglos hab?an cruzado el estrecho para pisar tierra espa?ola (15). Pero una vez acabado el trabajo y despu?s de camuflada totalmente la entrada de la caverna, Almanzor recel? de su amigo y maquin? una traici?n que acab? con la muerte de Gallar?n y de todos sus colaboradores. Derrib? su palacio y la torre vig?a que hab?a construido en el monte, hasta tal punto que no qued? rastro de que aquella tierra hubiera estado poblada en ning?n momento.

No pas? mucho tiempo cuando el ministro ?rabe tuvo que abandonar tierras segovianas derrotado y perseguido hasta que se encontr? con la muerte en las puertas de Medinaceli, quedando su tesoro en el anonimato para siempre.

Seg?n mi septuagenario informante, que cuando era joven hab?a trabajado mucho en este cortijo, viv?a cerca de Cambil una mujer muy rica que ten?a mucha amistad con el obispo de Ja?n. Sol?a visitar a menudo al prelado y le llevaba buenos regalos. En una ocasi?n, el obispo, en pago de su amistad le dio una copia del testamento del Rey Almanzor, que estaba en el Archivo de la catedral jiennense. Lo curioso de este documento era la descripci?n tan precisa que daba de un lugar muy concreto situado a una treintena de kil?metros de la capital, y que seg?n un?nime opini?n pod?a tratarse muy bien de un tesoro.

Esta se?ora guard? el documento en su cortijo con la idea de alg?n d?a prestarle un poco de atenci?n, cosa que no ocurri? nunca, pues al poco tiempo una grave enfermedad acab? con su vida. El cortijo pas? entonces a manos de los patronos de mi interlocutor y cicerone en esta historia, encontr?ndose presente cuando los nuevos due?os descubrieron el documento. Lo leyeron en voz alta, sin comprender al principio su significado, y cuando sospecharon lo que pod?a ser guardaron celosamente el papel donde nadie pudiera encontrarlo. Pero no contaron con la avisada memoria de su moza, que aprendi? el texto de corrido y que ser?a de la siguiente forma:

A cinco leguas de Ja?n, sitio de la Torre, se?as m?s principales: la loma de las Cabras y el castillo derribado en la atalaya que divisa siete torreones. El terreno que all? existe tiene dedos y yemas y rayas en las piedras. Un ?rbol negro con un tronco muy grueso y unos endrinos. Tres mogotes de piedra hechos de la mano del hombre, uno enfrente de Coloma y los otros al hilo de ?ste. De uno de ellos baja un carril desmochado de piedras, cuando acaba, a tres metros en direcci?n al sol saliente, una piedra igual de ancha que de larga tapa un agujero y a continuaci?n un pasillo ancho y largo, no hagas caso de cuanto veas ni oigas, sigue adelante hasta que veas, al final, dos poyos grandes.

En un principio las pesquisas se dirigieron al castillo de Arenas, en t?rmino de Campillo de Arenas, donde, seg?n cuentan, m?s de una fortuna se ha derrochado cavando t?neles por los alrededores, y aun la vida de alg?n desafortunado que la arriesgara remontando sus peligrosos paredones.

Al no encontrarse nada las prospecciones cambiaron de escenario, llev?ndose a cabo m?s recientemente en el cortijo de la Torre, sin que hasta hoy sepamos de ning?n descubrimiento importante.

 

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