There are several theories about the origin of Alameda. In this regard, stresses that Alameda was originally known as the city or town water Astapa, Libyan-founded by Phoenicians in the current next few villares muncipio.Alameda belonged to the Marquis of Estepa, and was established in 1848 by City Hall which was framed in the province of Sevilla. For the nineteenth-century town a century of changes, ruptures and hardship. The new provincial administration was created in 1833, replacing the ancient Kingdoms aAlameda place in Malaga, depending court of Archidona. However, it remains dependent ecclesiastically Estepa until the year 1874, which was placed under the Archbishop of Seville. Finally, in 1959 the Bishop of Malaga is in charge of the parish deAlameda. No less singular that roam different administrations, this sudden change in management and commercial relations with Estepa, now replaced porAntequera.

The bad situation experienced by the town in the nineteenth century remains in the first half of the twentieth century, further aggravated by the decline of the unappropriated, disinvestment and deindustrialization of the village, where agriculture is the only source of wealth.

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The Civil War of 1936 was a great tragedy hard to beat. But worse was the postwar period we know as the years of famine. Unemployment, disease, overcrowding, hunger, were the common denominator of much of the population, when it-oddly-was at its highest level, going up to have more than six thousand. This lack of future prospects and forced nearly two thousand alamedanos to abandon their land and moved around to several Spanish regions (Valencia, Basque Country and Catalonia) and other abroad (Switzerland, Netherlands, France and Germany). In 1960 he laid the foundations of actualAlameda. Introduced full mechanization of the countryside, with the influx of agricultural machinery and the gradual disappearance of draft animals. At this time establishing the first cooperative, was built market hall, the school group, the streets were paved, it vaulted the stream of Poplars and performed works Water supply and sanitation.