Our History

The origin of El pandero was due to the strategic location of the estate, surrounded by farms that needed day labourers to carry out their activities. And on the edge of a road that facilitated movement and access to the various Cortijos.

The word “pandero” has two meanings: one gives its name to the utensil that was used daily to contain the bread and the other refers to the instrument that livened up the festivities in the region.

The pandero was a community of neighbouring farm labourers, whose work depended on the will of the landowners or, as they are popularly known in Andalusia, “Señoritos”.

The daily concern of these workers was subsistence at a time when hunger was a reality. There was not much to eat and there was a lot of work to be done to gain the trust of the Señoritos, from whom they obtained a derisory salary, hard bread or scraps from their table.

As an example of the popular dwellings, here in El Pandero a hut of the time is preserved.

Within these four walls you can appreciate the construction of those times and experience the sensations and hardships that José Adrian Márquez Ortega and his wife Dolores Gómez suffered until they managed to create a humble home to shelter their children from the cold and misery.

In time, three of their children (Juan, Rafael and Josefa) built their huts next to their parents, with only the one that belonged to Juan Márquez Gómez still standing.

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