Almajet Viajes: Cañete de las Torres

Cañete de las Torres Spain

The first news about human activity in the area of this town begins with the Neolithic revolution, whose economy was represented by farmers, grouped in villages. Quite significant from the Bronze Age are the surface finds obtained in Puentes Viejos, El Vilano, El Hornillo, Cabeza Lavada and, above all, in the rich site of La Haza de la Virgen. Due to its proximity to Obulco (present-day Porcuna), the Iberian civilization has left a record of its passage through Cañete. Here they found animals sculpted in stone, coins and ceramics typical of this culture, and even a fortified enclosure, the Cortijo Real. Populated in Roman times, and earlier by the Iberians, it is believed to be Calpurniana, a city founded by Calpurnius Piso, although there is no clear certainty of this. Other theories claim that it was founded by Caesar in 45 BC. There is no certainty of this either. Here the battle of Munda against the sons of Pompey was prepared. A good example of the Roman period of Cañete de las Torres can be found in La Haza de la Virgen, where, according to the oldest of the place, the aforementioned city of Calpurriana was, in the Callejón de los Moros, in which several sculptures carved in the rock were buried with filling materials thrown by the neighbors. and at the Cortijo El Alamillo, which provided a bronze tablet with Latin inscriptions. In other places there are remains of lead pipes, vestiges of constructions, tombs, coins, mills, farming tools and common and luxury ceramics, both Hispanic and imported, decorated with molds and smooth. The Visigothic presence in Cañete de las Torres is confirmed by the presence of bricks with reliefs of rosettes or inscriptions on the edges, while from the time of the Muslims, which is when the documents of this town emerge in greater profusion, especially from the tenth century, there are remains scattered throughout different areas of the municipality. During the reconquest it was lost and regained several times by the Christians due to its border location. It was finally conquered by Ferdinand III, leaving it under the jurisdiction of the city of Cordoba; King Sancho IV of Castile asked the city of Córdoba to grant some inheritance to Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba, who was then alguacil mayor of that city, as a reward for his services to the king and to Córdoba itself,1 although Vázquez Campos added that it was as a reward for having participated in the conquests of Baena. Luque and Zuheros.2 And on June 9, 1293, the aforementioned city of Cordoba, in response to the king's letter, ceded to Alfonso Fernández the lordship of Cañete de las Torres31 with all its boundaries and pastures, pastures, waters and springs1 so that he could populate it,4 and this "perpetual and hereditary" donation was later confirmed by King Sancho IV in Burgos on July 8, 1293.1 Authors have pointed out that this donation of the town of Cañete constituted "the germ of the extensive territorial and jurisdictional patrimony of his lineage".5 It changed hands until it reached the Duchy of Medinaceli, which held the marquisate until the extinction of the lordships in the nineteenth century. In May 2011, it suffered a flood in which several streets in the town were swept away by a huge body of water that swept away the homes of many residents and the life of a woman

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CAÑETE DE LAS TORRES,CORDOBA

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Cañete de las Torres, Spain

Cañete de las Torres Spain