Cuevas Bajas This guide will be very useful to move through the streets, locating every bar, restaurant, lodging, or visitable tourist or cultural interest, you'll know where the main celebrations are celebrated, or discover incredible spots.
The area in which is located Cuevas Bajas, has historical antecedents from the Palaeolithic (40,000 BC), as is clear from the instrumental appeared in neighboring Cave of Belda and on the terraces of the river Genil, and throughout his accidentally municipality, indicating the existence of a primitive population of hunters and fishermen. Copper Age there Cuevas Bajas near a necropolis of artificial caves.
During Roman times, around s. II, near the present town, passing one of the collection Roman roads in the itinerary of Antonio, the Antonian way. From this period we can find within its municipal numerous remains of Roman villas, standing out as civil engineering works the remains of the bridge over the Arroyo de las Pozas, the bathhouses in known as Villa Del Burriana, and remains of some bathrooms in the place called "Baños de Escobar", being on the other numerous side traces of ointment objects blown glass, bases and remains of columns, remains of plows, coins, bracelets, related to grinding and remains of Roman mosaics stones III century, as found in the area known as "Huertas del Marqués" and in the area of ​​Cortijo del Conde.
During the Middle Ages, Cuevas Bajas and Cuevas Altas were called Cuevas de Belda, two Muslim villages that were conquered by the Infante of Antequera Pedro de Narvaez about the year 1426, and that after evicting the Muslim population were wiped out by not having enough Antequera population to repopulate.
At the end of s. XV population is coming to the village, so Villages Kidron and Moheda, which may be with the help of this guide repopulated. It is from this time, when it starts to set the current Cuevas Bajas coming to have at the beginning of s. XVIII more than 1,400 people, getting to have its peak after independence from Antequera the August 7, 1819, reaching in 1900 a population of about 3000 inhabitants.
You can take a trip to the present, Royal Street where see the parish church of San Juan Bautista seventeenth century and the Place de la Reja house the most remarkable civil buildings in this town, as the house of the Crystals and the House of Felipe Quintana, to which should be added the facade of the old sale of Juan Gonzalez, meeting place of the most famous bandits of the nineteenth century.
Some of its most important holidays offer times when visiting Cuevas Bajas, these are: the Fair, Pilgrimage of San Juan and Carrot Festival Mora. Given the richness and uniqueness of this product has been decided to pay homage every first Sunday of December, thus celebrates the day of the Carrot Morá inviting all attendees.
The street of this guide will allow you to locate each point of interest and each bar or restaurant where you can taste the products rich, beautiful and relaxed hiking trails for its spectacular creeks that defined mostly by river channels: Northeast Brook Pozas, southeast brook Burriana north and northwest and the Genil river, we offer visits to the river Genil La Noria nineteenth century and bird observatory, among others.
Cuevas Bajas offers visitors many opportunities to enjoy the five senses.