After fighting between the Almohads, the Christians took the control and the king Alfonso VIII donated the village to the military Order of Santiago, many nobles and personalities were born or lived there in those days, including the poet Jorge Manrique.

With the invasion of Napoleon's troops, the town was set on fire and most of its Archive was destroyed, losing a great part of the history of the village that will never be recovered.

The Fountain of Carlos V decorated with its shield is close to the Church of Nuestra Señora del Collado that has a nice painting of the Descendimiento by Gregorio Hernández and a Romanic sculpture of the Virgen de la Peña.

The major local celebration is the festivity of the Virgen del Rosario between the 4 and 8 October that mixes religion and culture, those days the town had many people coming from other close villages.

During the day people enjoy the bull fightings in the Arabian square placed down the Castle and the competition of Bolos serranos.