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Los Pinos
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                                        History
  <>Cieza area has a grand ancient history and you get the first glimpse of it already on the way from Cieza to the house: if you look to the left of the road you will see a castle on the mountain top. It was described in  1575 chronicles "las Relaciones Topográficas": "There is a hill in which a tower is built, and in the time in which the Moors of the Kingdom of Valencia were not converted and did not surrender to the Kingdom of Granada, there were people of guard in this tower who gathered the passing travelers and the neighboring farmers of this village, whenever there were new Moors from the their Kingdoms, and enter to make raids by horseback and to captivate Christians". 


castle
       Castle of Cieza 
   
     Bridge over river Segura

Populated since the most ancient times, Cieza area it has the most unique paleolithic deposits in the mediterranean (Almadenes and Barranco de los Grajos). Also, there are neolithic deposits (La Serreta and Los Grajos).
dig
Medina Siyâsa dig
 
Neolithic cave paintings

Place of the íberic culture later (Bolvaz deposit), it was also once a stronghold of the romans and by the arabians, who left the archaeologic ensemble of Medina Siyâsa, abandoned in the centuries XI-XIII. It can be found down off the castle situated on a mountain near Cieza.

Cieza market

Ermita del Santo Cristo del Consuelo

 Basílica de La Asunción   

      Mill House

Cieza was the Segisa that was mentioned by Ptolomeo and it was located on the road constructed by the Romans from Saltigi to Carthage Nova. It had a strategic geographic position in the north of the Segura valley and it attracted the Arabs who built fortifications of  the Castle, Beatas and Molbax in XII and XIII centuries. This was the time at which it reached its greatest cultural splendor.

The time of turbulent conquests by romans, arabs and christians has long gone, and now this beautiful land enjoys a quiet peaceful life which earned Cieza the name of the Peach Capital.

You can read more about the history of the region on the webpage of the Cieza Tourism Office

Cieza Officina de Turismo
Camino de Murcia, Nº1
30530 Cieza(Murcia)
Spain
Tel.: 34-968-453500
Fax: 34-968-453500
oficina.turismo@ayuntamiento.cieza.net
 
Country House "Los Pinos", Cieza, Murcia,
  email: snazar1@yahoo.co.uk
tel. +44-1926-732007 (UK)