Serón
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History
A place that has been settled since prehistoric times and in its municipal area there are various caves. Perhaps the most important finding was the existence of the bell-shaped glass: the Argar cup which was produced next to the river Almanzora and which spread throughout Europe.
In Roman times it was called Serius and during the Gothic domination it formed part of the kingdom of Teodomiro passing over to Moslem hands at the end of the VIII century.
The town and its fortress were conquered in 1489. After the surrender, the Catholic Monarchs gave it as a landed estate to the leader from Bastetania Mahomat Haçen and after he was expelled to Barbary, it became the property of Diego Lopez Pacheco, Marquis of Villena.
The Moorish revolt in 1568 was especially violent in Seron. In July 1569, the Moors took over the fortress and the village and killed all the inhabitants except the children under twelve and the women who they took to the Alpujarras. In the year 1570, don Juan of Austria suffered his only defeat at the hands of the Moors and was nearly killed. On the so-called Slaughter Hill (Cuesta de la Matanza), 6.000 Moors led by El Maleh and El Habaquí attacked the troops of don Juan of Austria. When Seron was lost so was the whole Almanzora valley. They took refuge in the castle with abundant provisions. After the war the Moors were expelled. Repopulation was carried out with people from outside the Kingdom of Granada.
In the XIX century it was also affected by mining fever. In the year 1845 a seam of saltpetre was discovered in the Angosto, where three factories were built. The working of the mines developed during the whole of the XIX century. In the present century between 1920 and 1930 the process went into decline which brought with it a prolonged crisis and also a decrease in the population due to emigration.
