It is included among the new districts that were constituted in during the decade of 1970 by the link of several small city councils, Lecrín took the generic name of the region, being in Talará where it resides the capital of the district. It shares this role with Mondújar due to the proximity of these population centres. The district includes, in addition, other four towns: Béznar, Acequias, Chite and Murtas.

As it accepts its tourist reclamation, everything is joy and it always seems spring in Lecrín. Its beautiful landscapes as much as its extensive artistic historical legacy make of it a place of great tourist interest.

Talará began being a neighbourhood of Mondújar until after the construction of a hermitage by the citizens it was declared anejo. Acequias is the most elevated of the six cores, framed between the channel of the Torrente River, the Pleito Ravine and the Cerro Gordo. Chite, with its High and Low neighbourhoods, offers to the traveller a pretty stamp with Moorish and stately houses of the XIX century with beautiful gardens. Murchas, on the other hand, shows a varied monumental sequence, from the Church of the Salvador to the canal of Arcs. Finally, Béznar, the southernmost of the Lecrín towns, is also the less elevated, to the point of losing under the waters of the dam with its name one of its neighbourhoods.

History

The discovery of Roman spas dated between from the mid I century and beginnings of the IV shows that the origin of this town goes back to that time. However, it was with the Arabs when Lecrín reached a greater apogee. Due to its condition of agricultural place, without important defences, this district did not suffer too much the shortages of the war nor of the Moorish rise. Even so, it did suffer the expulsion of these ones, since it was left depopulated and its agriculture very decreased. After the Islamic defeat, Lecrín was repopulated with Christians coming from other kingdoms of Spain and in the XIX century it depopulates again because of the emigration and several epidemics.

Gastronomy

The citruses, especially oranges and lemons, which are cultivated in the entire Lecrín Valley, stand out. The sugar cane that was cultivated in the near Coast has been the traditional base of the cane candy, one of the oldest and most characteristic recipes of the area.