Pajarón

A village in the eastern mountains

Pajarón lies in Serranía Baja (lower Serranía), where the mountains open towards the Cabriel valley. Its municipality, about 53 km², combines Mediterranean scrub, hills, woodland and farmland, and people lived from farming and livestock. The village is compact, with traditional houses. The landscape stands out most, best in spring and autumn.

What trades and memory tell

Pajarón belonged to the territory and marquisate of Moya. The town that gave it its name, now deserted, is described in Moya.

In 1849 Madoz reported that Pajarón’s Town Council, with a budget of 1,300 reales, was funded by the oven and grazing. A bridle path from Valencia to Madrid passed through the village, in very poor condition like the local roads, and post arrived from Cañete once a week.

A pledge from 1688

On the second Sunday in May, the village goes in procession with its image to Carboneras de Guadazaón. This is Domingo de Procesiones, Processions Sunday, dating from 1688, when Carboneras, Arguisuelas, Reíllo, Pajarón and Pajaroncillo signed deeds pledging forever to honour the Santa Hijuela, a relic entrusted by the Marchioness of Moya to the Dominicans of Carboneras convent, and to attend its procession with their saints. The mayors renewed the deeds around 2023, and La Cierva and Villar del Humo have since joined.

Plan your visit

Pajarón is a village for walking, with countryside around it, on a day through Serranía Baja.

Before you travel

Bring water.

Combine with

Pajaroncillo, with its burial mounds, is 4.2 km away in a straight line, and Carboneras de Guadazaón 6.9 km.