From their origins that go back approximately to 2,000 BC to the Mojácar present time has been able to maintain their legacy, and now it keeps like in no other place in Andalusia a singular fidelity with his Arab past.

Mojácar was an exceptional location to dominate the horizon, by his location and geographic position Mojácar very it has been valued and appreciated by many towns that were based in the region it makes about 2000 BC.

The Phoenicians (1100 BC) and the culture of argárica of the Age of Bronze (2000 BC) denominated Murgis. When the Greeks occupied the region to the town denominated Murgis Akra (Murgis in the height), of there its Latin derivation, Mucacra, and Arab, Moxacar, that gives foot to its present name of Mojácar.

Mojácar was flourishing city until entered good century XVIII, in the military man, civilian and ecclesiastic. The population gets to amount itself in 10.000 people. Towards half of century XVIII the decay of the city begins. Persistent droughts that decrease to the town agriculturist are the reason for the exodus towards South America and later to Catalonia and Europe. The depopulation acquired alarming character. But the miracle arrived in the form of tourism, that far from destroy the authentic appearance of its town and its people made that the visitor continued admiring their past, its architecture, the white color of their houses and the abierto character of people who inherited the tolerance and coexistence of diverse cultures and religions.