History

In the Sierra de Quesada there are numerous shelters with cave paintings, among which the cave of the Encarejo is found, the shelter of the Vitar Hill, the cave of the Ivy and the Cabrera cave , in which, besides the paintings, they were found material ceramic that have permitted dating the first human occupation of these lands in the III millennium b. C.

During the Bronze Age (II millennium b C), with it they arrive from the first villages, the same shelters and caves of the previous phase, and others, as the populated one and necropolis of the "Corral of Quiñones were occupied again ", in the Hill of the Magdalena.

Of its Roman past the village with a group of large relief, the town counts of Bruñel, magnificent evidence of architecture bound to the farm and that had a rich repertoire of mosaics. In its last occupation phases, the 4th century BC, has structures corresponding to a paleo-christian basilica.

To others of that of Bruñel, other towns the Allozar have been located, as the ones of the places, Voladero, the Rosales and Waters Warm up, that show heavily populated of the territory in imperial age.

The origin of the current summons of urban zone of Quesada seems to be of Visigothic age, according to the numerous remains appeared in the village, as the capitals that lay out today access to the garden of the parish.

But it was in Moorish Period when Quesada acquired organisation as centre of population. In the Arab texts as Madinat or qalat Qayyata appears named, a fortress situated to the foot of a high mountain, that offered the aspect of medina by its markets, baths, put down and colonised suburb. In this age its industry of plates and glasses of wood was very famous that would be transported and sold by everything Al-Andalus and the Maghreb.

The Arab sources also make an allusion to Hisn Tiskar and they place it in Raymiyya, a place that had many fortified places and high mountains.

From the first Christian conquest for the army of Alfonso VII in 1157, in the following centuries it changed several times of hands among the Castilian ones and andalusies. In the 1231 king Fernando III it put in the hands of the archbishop of Toledo the company to take the place of Quesada. Together with Quesada it was empowered of other populations that were yielded by the king to the church and that would later be the Adelantamiento de Cazorla.

But, even after the conquest of the Archbishop, the attacks to the population did not stop: in 1290, 1295 and 1299 Muhammad II of Granada conquest and smooths the suburb, then it conquers his descendant again Muhammad III in 1302 and 1310 it was recovered again by the army of by Fernando IV. In 1319 Tiscar by the infant gift was conquered Pedro, uncle of Alfonso XI .

In 1331 Quesada ceased to form part of Progress and was yielded by Alfonso XI to the city of Ubeda

Between the most emphasised facts of the Modern Age it is necessary to emphasise the riot of 1766, the first in which women in Spain were incited to rebellion, and that had as a reason the rise in the bread (repercussion of the riot of Esquilache). In 1788 in the village the Economic Society of Friends of the Country was based itself. Queen Isabel II granted the qualification of city.

In the first years of the 20th century the village the writers of the generation of the 98 visited Manuel Cigues Aparicio and Antonio Machado, that based several of their works on Quesada. For these dates, 1907, stemmed in Quesada the large painter of universal fame Rafael Zabaleta