Moclín is one of those villages where history has been generous leaving in it the testimony of the passing of time and the lives of men in the past.
Yes, you traveller that reads these lines and travels through its villages and its countryside, you won’t only find landscapes, in which water and time have been modelling the current relief from the original limestone which the vegetation of the Mediterranean forest covered. If tired of walking you calm your thirst in fountains of Malalmuerzo, Mingoandrés, La Fuente Vieja, El Pilarejo, and the medicinal springs of Limones, you lie next to the Velillos river or in beautiful spots in Olivares, you must know that other steps thousands years ago walked the paths you walk today and that other men have rested contemplating the same beauty that you contemplate today.

Over the fertile land of the Vega de Granada, men have settled here and have left memory of their lives, from the Palaeolithic tribes (Malalmuerzo cave, Pandera del Pino de Tiena site), the first farmers of the Neolithic, the copper and bronze age (Malalmuerzo cave, Pileta de la Zorra dolmens in Tozar, and of Marjales in Puerto Lope, Cañada de la Corcuela´s paintings, Abrigo de las Vereas, Pedrizas del peñascal)
Iberian culture, roman civilization, which from the city Illurco (Los Infantes hill in Pinos Puente) organized the communication and agrarian production of the zone (Villas del Velillos in Tiena, Silo Romano in Tózar) testimonies of primitive Christians (tombs in Tozar) and the Muslim presence (the amazing castle of Moclin, many signal towers, that reach the top of the highest mountains) arriving to the modern age, with the end of the Reconquest which brought the end of the Nazari Kingdom in Granada (to this period belongs the church founded by the Catholic king and queen which guards inside the image of “The Christ of the Cloth” “El Cristo del Paño” who inspires a strong devotion in Granada and Andalucía)

You won’t only find the excitement of discovering past times: men from today have also contributed with their work to the current beauty of our villages. Walk through its white streets and enjoy the hospitality and friendship of its people, you will also be able to travel around their traditions, their legends, their folklore; in its countryside you will find as well as the beauty of the landscape the testimony which shows them laborious, and with its gastronomy you will be able to recover your strength so that, like many other travellers when you leave Moclin, you will think in coming back because a little part of your heart was left there.