JAÉN

Jaén was one of the city of the kingdom of Castilla that had vote in the Parliament. Jaén was one of the richest cities in Spain.

 

The City Council on June 13, 1548 banned cards games and balls games in the chapter houses but the council departments were used for all kinds of fun and enjoyments.

 

The first days of June 1569 the superior and the beneficiaries of the church of San Bartolomé asked to the City Council to condemn the door of the wall that was next to this temple because it was surrounded by a lot of dirt and rotting, dead dogs and other animals. In addition, this place had bad smell and was dangerous. The council covered the alley but, later, someone removed the wall.

 

The City Commission banned in 1577 the sale of cakes and butter in the streets on holidays, until the end of the mass in the morning.

 

The council members of Jaen didn't go to the meetings of the council. There were only certain dates of the year when all of them were present when the city celebrated the bullfights.

 

The last half of July 1588, the Ecclesiastical Council celebrated a procession to pray for the victory of the Armada Invencible on the English fleet.

 

In the late 16th century the olive was not one of the most popular crops in Jaén.

 

The Council of Jaén agreed at its meeting on May 5, 1600 to prohibit the sale of green beans because they think that this food could cause the disease of plague.

 

In 1609 the City Council agreed to build a balcony on the side wall at Plaza de Santa María for members of the City Council and the Ecclesiastical Cabildo to see the bullfights.

 

Seven thousand five hundred inhabitants of Jaén crossed the seas to colonise India.