History of TOTALÁN

Escudo de Totalán

Totalán has got some rests which date from the end of the neolitithic. This is known thanks to the discovery of a dolmen In the outskirts of the village.It is said that it started to develop centuries ago round the fountains which supplied the water of the two streams. The first news written date from the end of the twelfth century.Totalán. had oil mills and made flat mass.Totalán evolved from a farmhouse to a municipality in the Nineteenth century.

Totalán

During he eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the economy was based on the agriculture.At the end of the vineyards because of the fhilloxera, this economic model was disappearing and part of the population emigrated to the coast. After the civil war, Totalán had about one thousand and five hundred inhabitants.

Casa Tio Miguel

 Today, they are six hundred and thirty and its vegetative increase remains stationary. 
In the fifties begin a new period of changes : building , hostelry and domestic service begin to get into importance. 
Nowadays, most of the active population of Totalán leaves the village in the morning to the coast and comes back in the evening. 
Totalán is becoming a dormitory locality with all the culture changes hat it implies. 

Casa Tio Miguel

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