Alicún – Viewpoint

Alicún de Ortega, or Alicún, is a municipality located in the northeastern part of the region of Los Montes. It borders with the municipalities of Dehesas de Guadix, Pedro Martínez and Alamedilla in Granada; and with the municipality of Quesada in Jaén. Archaeological studies indicate that the current enclave of the town has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Remains have been found belonging to the Neolithic, the Argar culture, Iberians, the Roman Hispania and Arabs and Castilians in the Middle Ages.

The village sits in the fertile valley of the Guadahortuna River, at the foot of a large hill that marks its landscape. The Cerro de Alicún rises immense. It is crowned by the ruins of an ancient Nasrid castle, dismantled and used as a quarry after the Conquest of Granada.