Martos is a city in the province of Jaén in the autonomous community of Andalusia in south-central Spain.
With a population of over 24,000 people, Martos is the fifth largest municipality in the province and the second in Jaén metropolitan area. The city is physically located on the western side of the Sierra Sur de Jaén, to which it previously belonged administratively.
It is popularly known as the City of the Rock (Spanish: Ciudad de la Peña) as it lies at the foot of a 1,003-metre (3,290 ft) mountain named Rock of Martos (Spanish: Peña de Martos).
As is essentially the case in the entire province of Jaén, the economy of Martos is heavily based on agriculture, specifically the cultivation of the olive tree. With over 22,000 hectares of olive fields (accounting for 85% of the municipality area) and 20 million liters per year, Martos is the largest olive oil producing city in the world, thus earning the nickname of Cradle of the Olive Grove (Spanish: Cuna del Olivar).
Martos is also an important industrial center in inner Andalusia. French global automotive supplier Valeo established a factory in the city in the 1980s, making it the largest business in the province.. Moreover, the low-cost fuel sales company Petroprix was founded in Martos in 2013, becoming the fastest-growing energy company of Europe in 2024.
Distance between:
Madrid to Martos188 Miles / 302 Kms Barcelona to Martos415 Miles / 668 Kms
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