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Los Guarjares are made up of three villages and share one town hall (Ayuntamiento), which is situated in Guájar Faragüit. This is usually considered the most important of the three villages, and in addition to the town hall and council has an old fortified town that is still well preserved. Known as El Castillejo the walled town is at the top of the hill near Guájar Faragüit, and is thought to have been built between the end of the XIII century and the beginning of the XIV, by the Almohads during Moorish rule of Spain. It was the same Almohads – a Muslim dynasty and religious group that ruled the Iberian Peninsula in the 12th Century – who were the first to settle in the valley, building farmhouses and cultivating the land. When Spain was retaken from the Moors by the Catholic Kings, the Guájares were divided up as spoils by some of the main lieutenants. Guájar Faragüit went to Luis de Portocarrero while Guájar Fondón was given to Don Juan de Ulloa. In later years, following further expulsion of the Moors, the farmhouses established in the valley by the Almohads were reduced to the three Guájares which remain today.