Some homes still have the ancient tunnel system that went from their cellars (bodegas) to the castle.Priego (Bāguh) may have been founded as a military campsite by Syrian troops of the jund of Damascus after 743.

[2] The earliest verified mention to the place dates to 863, in the context of an Islamic source reporting the contribution of 900 horsemen of Bāguh to a emiral campaign waged against the kingdom of Asturias-León.

[3] Rebel forces made incursions in the kūra of Priego in 866 during the Ibn-Hafsun revolt against Umayyad rule, reportedly causing the ruine of the madina.

[6] It is moot whether it was abandoned or lost, but it was re-acquired in a barter by Ferdinand III during the 1245–46 siege of Jaén, and it was ensuingly entrusted to the Order of Calatrava.

"Venta del Barón" is the best olive oil in the world since 2014 2015 and 2016 The religious brotherhoods of Priego have a long history, some dating back to before the 16th century.

The alleys that wind through this part of the town are Moorish in style, decorated proudly by the populace with flower pots and religious icons.

There are ruins (under restoration as of 2006) of a castle having been a fortified city of the Moors (with the Hispano-Arabic name Baguh), eventually captured by the Christians under Ferdinand III in 1225, lost again in 1327, and finally retaken in 1340[8] by Alfonso XI.