Beteta

Beteta lies in the rugged Serranía de Cuenca beneath the castle of Rochafría. The town appears in a grant of 1166, when Alfonso VIII gave it to the church of Sigüenza together with its pastures, woods and salt workings. Its lordship later changed hands several times. After the execution of Álvaro de Luna in the fifteenth century, Beteta and its dependent villages passed to the Carrillo de Albornoz family, while livestock routes crossed the high pastures around the town.