Villa Ciscarejo Country house between orange groves in Gádor (Almería)

The oldest archaeological finds from the Levante Almeriense date back to the beginning of history, from the Paleolithic, as can be seen in the La Zajara I and II caves (Cuevas del Almanzora). From then on it was the cradle of great cultures such as El Argar, and later peoples from that area settled here like the Phoenicians.
Paleolithic and Neolithic finds have appeared in various communities in the area, while the presence of Chalcolithic settlements is confirmed by sites such as Turre and Vera, belonging to the Los Millares culture. Later, the inhabitants of El Agrar (Antas) would set a new milestone in history by giving their personal mark to the Bronze Age. They were the most important representatives of a culture that developed between 1900 and 1300 BC developed in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula: the El Agrarian culture. The same culture includes several excavations in the area, of which that of Fuente Álamo in Cuevas del Almanzora is particularly noteworthy.

In the 8th century BC, the Phoenicians docked in the Levante Almeriense coastal region and founded a factory in Villaricos, one of the province's most important archaeological sites. The wealthy Roman-Punic city of Baria arose here. Iberians, Carthaginians and Romans settled here before the arrival of the Moors in the 8th century.
It was these settlers of what was once Al-Andalus who gave the area a character that is still alive today, several centuries after their expulsion. It lives on in the folk architecture, in the place names of the area and in the widely spread settlement form, which is reminiscent of the Moorish estates.
In modern times, the coast was dotted with towers and fortresses in the face of the Berber threat. Once this period of uncertainty had been overcome, the 19th century saw an economic boom that came from the mining industry, the traces of which are spread throughout the area in the form of industrial structures, now dedicated to tourism and agriculture.