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The village is close situated to the highway between Malaga and Granada and is located in a beautiul landscape. Its relief evenly leads to outstanding ravines like Arroyo de la Verdeja, la Torre and los Pinares. Within the town itself, there are several streams (now channeled) that cross the village before they join the river Genil.

The lanscape is mainly agricultural with riverside vegetation, poplars, Olmos and twigs. The village was formed initially by numerous mills and farmhouses. While the settlements in this land according the archaeological remains start with Neanderthals in the Upper Paleolithic 150,000 years ago and continue with the Iberians, Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths and finally the Muslims.

The village was situated in a zone that  was maintained for more than two centuries as a border between the Kingdom of Granada and the Christian kingdom of Castile. It was the "last frontier of al-Andalus", so the people and land that have an endless source of the legends, the stories and battles. 

• Damm;
• Museum Tahona o Pósito which was an old bakery situated next to the town hall (17th century). In the museum is an exibition about the history of the town and also about the working of a flour mill;
• Stream: Arroyo de los Pinares;
• Irrigation Systems: Sistemas de Riego Andalusí;
• Church: Iglesia Parroquial de Ntra. Sra. la Aurora (mudéjar style);
• Local Swimming Pool;
• There are more than 20 mountain bike routes, and also several hiking routes.