The oldest archaeological vestiges discovered in the district correspond to an Iberian town and they are in the place of Las Erillas, where rests of a cemetery and many ceramics containers appeared. In the so called Venta del Nacimiento, next to the old royal road of Granada, columns of Roman origin were found that it is assume relate to a small temple dedicated to the Gods of the water. Of the same time are also the rests of the old dam known in the town with the name of “ the roman” and whose works are dated in the I and II centuries a.C. The only visible track left of the Muslim period is the watchtower that, from its high location at the spurs of the mountain range and right upon the town, controls the pass between Iznalloz and Granada through the Cubillas valley. As well, rests of a medieval cemetery at the present Islas Canarias neighbourhood, where the primitive town centre probably was have been documented.
After the Reconquista carried out by the Catholic Kings, the town was given to the Abbey of the Sacromonte of Granada, whose coat of arms (a star of six ends formed by two superposed equilateral triangles) would be adopted then like own of the villa. In the XIX century, with the confiscation of Mendizábal, the property was acquired in public auction by the countess of Antillón. In 1944, being property of the Perez de Herrasti family, the Marques of Albayda sold it to the National Institute of Forecast, and this one to the Brotherhood of Farmers of Deifontes, which parcelled out it and distributed it among its members.
The oldest archaeological vestiges discovered in the district correspond to an Iberian town and they are in the place of Las Erillas, where rests of a cemetery and many ceramics containers appeared. In the so called Venta del Nacimiento, next to the old royal road of Granada, columns of Roman origin were found that it is assume relate to a small temple dedicated to the Gods of the water. Of the same time are also the rests of the old dam known in the town with the name of “ the roman” and whose works are dated in the I and II centuries a.C. The only visible track left of the Muslim period is the watchtower that, from its high location at the spurs of the mountain range and right upon the town, controls the pass between Iznalloz and Granada through the Cubillas valley. As well, rests of a medieval cemetery at the present Islas Canarias neighbourhood, where the primitive town centre probably was have been documented.
After the Reconquista carried out by the Catholic Kings, the town was given to the Abbey of the Sacromonte of Granada, whose coat of arms (a star of six ends formed by two superposed equilateral triangles) would be adopted then like own of the villa. In the XIX century, with the confiscation of Mendizábal, the property was acquired in public auction by the countess of Antillón. In 1944, being property of the Perez de Herrasti family, the Marques of Albayda sold it to the National Institute of Forecast, and this one to the Brotherhood of Farmers of Deifontes, which parcelled out it and distributed it among its members.
A very typical recipe is the so called rain soup. The celebration of the 1st of November turns the chestnut in protagonist and all the town meets in the bonfire to roast them. They celebrate a romería to the shore of the Cubillas river in which popular dishes are elaborated, like gachas with peppers or casserole of Easter. The pastry making occupies a preferred position with its homemade recipes of oil buns, magdalenas, borrachuelos, egg twisted rolls, butter twisted rolls and, mainly, pringue cakes or carda cakes.
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