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The Rock of Jaén, Sentinel of the Lost Worlds

The old shepherds of Sierra Mágina tell us that, long before the Christian kings and emirs of Granada dreamed of these lands, the Rock of Jaén was already a silent guardian between two worlds:
that of man and that of the spirit.

They say that, on nights of the full moon, the winds that whip its limestone walls are not simple breezes: they are the echoes of ancient invisible wars, where ghostly armies of Iberians and Romans crossed their weapons of light on the summit.
That when fog envelops the Rock, those who dare to walk its paths hear the gallop of invisible horses and see, fleetingly, torn flags waving in the void.

For centuries, the Rock was a beacon for frontier warriors: from its heights, Christian sentinels lit bonfires to warn of Moorish raids, and the Moriscos, in turn, used it as a last refuge when all was lost.

It is said that whoever summits the Rock alone at the coldest dawn of the year, and touches the oldest rock, "a broken block near the summit," hears in their heart the cry of the ancient gods of the mountains, swearing to protect, as long as the stars remain above Mágina, the secrets of a forgotten time.

There, where the sky seems closest and the earth most eternal, the Rock of Jaén is not just stone: it is an oath, it is memory, it is the border between what was and what may yet be.

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Location: Cambil, Magina, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

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