The Granada dictionary of toponyms by Amador Diaz Garcia and Manuel Barrios Aguilera says that its name comes from the Arabic «الطَّٰرَفْ» —at-Tāraf—, which in Granadan dialect would be «الطَّرْفِة» —at-Tárfeh—, meaning "strut", probably related to its Castillejo and Colorao peaks.

The first civilizations that settled into the soil date from the Neolithic, Iberian and Roman close to them, under whose domination Ilíberis city was founded in the foothills of Sierra Elvira.

[2] The decisive Battle of Higueruela between the troops of Juan II and King Muhammed IX of Granada took place a short distance from the city center of the village, precisely in the annex of Sierra Elvira.

[3]) At the church, in around 1570, the Moors of Albolote, Atarfe, Armilla, Belicena and Pinos Puente, met in order to be ken to Castile.

Erected as a copy of the Metropolitan Church of Granada promoted in 1501, stands on the place where the old mosque Xini was, as published in the Book of Hábices.

In 1617 it consisted of a single nave, which still maintains its coffered ceiling tracery conducted by Antonio Bermudez and Christopher Calvo, from the Granada school.

Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in front of the Chapel of Santa Ana, made of stone from Sierra Elvira, by a local sculptor from Granada, Antonio Cano Correa in 1940.