La Peza
GranadaAndalucía
Toponym from the Latin petra ('stone, crag') with article. It designates the calcareous elevation on which the town sits.
Town of the Guadix region, old frontier place of the Nasrid kingdom. Preserves the Mudéjar church of the Annunciation from the 16th century with square brick tower.
Evolution of the name
- petra Latin 1st–5th centuries
- La Peza medieval Castilian from 1489
Reflections, to the letter
The name is made of stone: from Latin petra, the crag. One glance uphill makes it plain. The medieval castle crowns a rocky promontory and the village spills down to its feet, clinging to the same rock that once watched the road from Guadix to Granada. There is no need to hunt for the crag that named the place; the whole village rests on it.
Glossary
- Marquisate of the Cenete
- Spanish noble title created in 1491 by the Catholic Monarchs for Cardinal Mendoza, in reward for his support in the conquest of Granada. It comprises five municipalities of the upper Marquesado valley, on the northern slope of Sierra Nevada, historically populated by Moriscos until the expulsion of 1610. La Calahorra Castle (1509-1512) is the ducal seat of the marquisate, first example of the Italian Renaissance in Castile.
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