Vélez-Rubio

Vélez-Rubio lies near a hill occupied by an earlier Muslim settlement, overlooking routes between the southeast and the interior. After the Castilian conquest of eastern Granada in 1488, it became part of the marquisate of Los Vélez. In the eighteenth century the marquis financed a new parish church of the Incarnation; its opening in 1769 was marked by celebrations recorded by the parish priest.