This village has a population of 700 inhabitants and is located into La Axarquía region, just at 17 kilometres from Vélez.

With the layout of its streets, of Arabic origin, and a prominent place like “La Fuenta”, directly to the ancient Arabic made fountain Cutar is with no doubt a good place to visit.

It’s name came from the Arabic term Cautzar meaning “fountain of paradise”.
Here we can find archaeological remains, which show the presence of human settlements from the end of the Neolithic Era to be the beginning of the Bronze Age. It’s town centre saw its beginnings as an Arabic fortification, no longer in existence, and there are many investigators that see in Cútar the scene in which the Battle of La Axarquía, where the Christians suffered a great defeat, was waged.

The most outstanding monuments of the village are the Parish Church of “Nra. Sra. De la Encarnación”, which hails from the Sixteenth Century, the archaeological remains of “el Cerro de la Peña de Hierro” and, south of the town, the Arabic fountain, called “fuente de la Arquería”.

Cútar is well known by it’s Fair of August, dedicated to San Roque a splendid moment to sample the towns dish par excellence, the soup with chickpeas and hard- pork sausages.

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