History

The municipality of Jayena (Chayyana for the Moors) has been historically linked, as all the villages in the west side of Granada, to Alhama de Granada. Both were under Muslim rule, then undertook Christianisation after the wars of Granada, and in the 19th century, endured the presence of Napoleonic troops during the war of Independence. However, the urban AREA where the population lived, was destroyed by the earthquake that struck in 1884. Thanks to the financial support given by King Alfonso XII and from all over Spain, the town was quickly reconstructed in the final years of the 19th century.