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The Arabic name of the place, "al-Kahf", the grotto, refers to its past as a mining town, whose origins date back to Roman times.
The mines of Alquife were, and still are, the pride of the province of Granada. Since the mining is done by open pit, the landscape enjoys a peculiar beauty.
Since time immemorial, the history of the place has been linked to the extraction of mineral resources, which was already carried out by the Romans.
In the Arab-Andalusian period, the mines continued to be exploited, and it was the Arabs who gave the place a new name: al-Kahf, from which Alquife originated.
Historically, the place is part of an area that was known as the Marquisate of el Zenete.
Town hall info
In your local town hall you can register / do the empadron ( find the explanation here)
Resident information for the Alquife area
What’s on in and around Alquife
Located on the outskirts of the town of Alquife, on the road to Calahorra, it is worth a detour of just over a kilometre and a half to see what was once the most important iron ore mine in Spain and one of the most important in Europe. Known since Roman times, its heyday came in the 1960s, when it was in operation for more than thirty years, until its closure in 1996, due to the fact that it was no longer profitable. Although it is closed to the public, you can still see part of the mining village, some of the industrial installations, the iron bridge, the train tracks that transported the ore to the port of Almería and, above all, the impressive hill formed by all the sediment extracted during the exploitation of the mine. Unfortunately, as it is fenced off, we cannot see the impressive 200 metre deep shaft from which the ore was extracted, now partially covered with water as the water table has been reached. We can see a very interesting aerial view at the entrance to the installations and we can even see its impressive size on Google Maps.