Saleres

The first settlers established seize its ideal environment since prehistoric stages, having secured the water, gathering fruit, hunting and adequate defense.

Muslims, despite infighting and Christian expeditions, perfected agriculture, introduced new crops, orchards and fostered improved irrigation, giving this village water distribution systems, with slight modifications, are preserved today.

After the civil wars of the kingdom of Granada, in 1570 Felipe II ordered the expulsion of the Moors from Lecrín Valley.

A century later, the village suffered the effects of the great earthquake of Andalusia, and the cholera epidemic of phylloxera which produced the total ruin of the vineyards.

During the first half of the twentieth century it increased its population, culminating in 1960 with 587 inhabitants, who cultivated the paratas neatly and accessible terraces by riding mule or on foot.