Travel Guide Los Santos De Maimona

Dazzling white houses whose luminosity explodes, whether the sky is blue or anthracite, before the storm… As soon as you see Los Santos from Maimona, you will understand why she received the beautiful nickname of Piropo Blanco of Extremadura. If in the surrounding area there are traces of human settlement of the Chalcolithic (about 2,500 BC, discoveries exhibited at the municipal museum), it is the arrival of the Romans, 50 years B.C., which marked the true beginning of the occupation of that territory, which became a traffic passage via road to Astigi (current Ecija, Andalusia). But it's a later occupation that will cause its current name, derived, on the one hand, from the presence of a Berber tribe, the Masmudas, from the Banu Maimum clan, arriving from 712, but also from a reference to Latin saltus (jump) that reflected its passage situation. between two mountains. No saints, therefore. Reconquered by Christians in 1240, the city reached its greatest prosperity in the early sixteenth century as evidenced by the most important monuments still visible today, often stemming from recent fortunes of the indigenous Indianos. In an area marked by vineyards, olive trees, cereals and almonds, Los Santos de Maimona remained a village primarily farming until the twentieth century, when its coal mines and cement factories contribute to a significant increase in the population. Since these activities have ceased, this city of more than 8,200 people is again focused on business and agricultural production.