In the region of the Countryside, to 43 kilometers to the Southeastern of the capital of the province, the urban nucleus of the Molares is located, in whose silhouette it emphasizes by its special impronta, the presence of the beautiful castle that, unfortunately, is not recovered like, by its artistic importance and architectonic, it would deserve.
The historical antecedents of the place that today occupies this locality and its territory, have an unequivocal Roman seal, as they let deduce the abundant archaeological rest, which makes think that in the environs the Latin city of Salpesa or Alpesa was raised. After the Romans, the villa is probable that it became depopulated until the Muslim time that, as of century VIII, would turn the place a farmhouse.
With the Castilian domination in the days of Fernando III, the meadow was in the forgetfulness until king Fernando IV, in century XIV, granted it to Small Lope in recognition to his active participation in Reconquista. The Molar was called then, and the satately delivery took place in exchange for which the lineage of the Boy defended the utrerana region of possible Arab incursions. The fear to the Nazaríes of Granada, whose kingdom approached these earth dangerously, motivated the construction of a palace fortified in the days of new proprietor Lope Gutiérrez de Toledo. To the heat of the fortified enclosure it went going the population to the nucleus.
In 1.430, the castle gives to the family Shore, Dukes of Medinacelli, becoming the main operations center of the fight against the Muslims of Granada. With the abolition of the mayorazgos, the Medinacelli sold their property and the transactions went away happening until in 1.886, it happened to hands of the Marquess of San Marcial, Enrique of the Block, that recovered the strength until giving its present aspect him.
In the historical evolution of the urban nucleus, 4 stages differentiated clearly can be appraised, oldest of which it would extend by apples of the Church, the castle and the city council as well as other constructions in his immediate surroundings. One first expansion from this original nucleus is made in direction the west and the northeast, consolidating the central part of the nucleus with its present aspect. To one third phase of growth, they must the expansions in the Quarter of the Prado, the Football ground, the zone of the Polideportivo and other precise expansions in North direction. The last phase in the urban development of the villa is very recent and it corresponds with the occupation of the zone of the Palomar.
The urban structure that presents/displays the nucleus at the present time, corresponds with the one of a nucleus with star growth, leaning in the 4 main ways that, in form of vanes, arises from the town, which has determined an urban framework with predominance of apples extended, to a large extent with East-West direction, except in which they lean in the ways that go towards the northeast and the northwest.
In addition to already mentioned castle, it is to emphasize between the monumental patrimony of the municipality, the Parochial Church of Santa Marta, temple to mudéjar of Latin and reformed cross plant in several occasions.