Rágol

The township has Ragol of 26.92 km2, and belongs to the region of the Middle Valley Andarax. Bordered by Alboloduy, Instinción and Canjáyar. The village is located on the right bank of the river Andarax in the foothills of Sierra de Gádor.
The relief of the town is very uneven, with Ragol to 423 m. elevation and separated by 39 km from Almería.

The term has a variable that goes from the top of Montenegro (1,710 m.), Sierra Nevada, up to 1,400 m. the "Cantos de la Muela", in Sierra Gádor with a depression which crosses transversely at an altitude of 400 m., where the river runs Andarax.

History
With their crops to the front of the village on the banks of the river, Ragol presents the most intriguing name in the area, which is yet to clarify, although it is the cultural Muslim settlement over eight centuries.

Possibly chosen for its proximity to the river, its fertile land and strategic as the last bastion of the High Alpujarra road.

During the ninth century was held in the county a settlement of some 20 castles with a defensive nature in an area of conflict because of the independent nature of its inhabitants, unwilling to convert to Islam, may well be the first settlement in Ragol.

Later, in the fourteenth century, being the Kingdom of Granada, Ragol will belong to Taha  de Marchena, a new administrative unit in which the sultans Nasrid split the territory, which comprised 10 villages, ruled from Marchena, where the main strength and the governor resided, traditionally the family Al-Nayar or Infantes de Almería.

After the surrender of Baza and Almeria capitulations in 1490, Ragol ceases to be Muslim to begin its modern history under the aegis of a new political and religious power, granted to Don de Marchena Taha Gutierres Cardenas and Chacon, as feudal by the Catholic Monarchs in 1494, in reward for his assistance in the Reconquista and later with his son, establishing the Duchy of Maqueda, giving name to the county.

Throughout the sixteenth century, Ragol will witness an era of intense political, social and economic factors, conditioned by the successive rebellions of the Moriscos (including the Moors ragoleños) until their final outbreak in 1568, with its defeat and expulsion in 1570.

The following centuries XVII and XVIII, are in transition and recovery of the demographic and economic crisis that led to the expulsion of the Moors and later by Christians restocking old in 1574.

The nineteenth century began with a liberal environment, it will mark one of the most important for the municipality of Ragol, their new system of independent legal and administrative level, hence the abolition of the domains in 1835.

The new crop of grapes Ohanes, which spread throughout this century, it will be important for the people, having a major contribution of wealth and a remarkable population growth and new construction of a bourgeois, especially in the lower village .

Attractions
CHURCH
Presents a rectangular nave covered with an armor limabordón with braces on dogs apeinazados profile S and decorative panels at the ends and center of the almizate. The walls of rafasan tape and boxes of bricks and masonry, is crowned by a cornice and brick djaboï profile gola. The tower stands next to the header in the side of the Epistle and the body of bells on each side presents a success with half-point arc, in the molding and roof line imposta four waters. Board to the tower and the sacristy is the former home of the priest. Doors open at the ends of the feet and on the side of the Gospel and offer a half-point arc which is cut directly into the wall.

In 1530 the collection was made of stone and lime, the site was paved and marked the trenches of the church, which was lifted in the second third of the S. XVI. Looted during the rebellion of the Moors, there was demolished in 1578 and said Mass in a piece that remained unburned. Possibly rebuilding not take place until the end of S. XVI or the beginning of S. XVII, manifested as the original elements of the current armor. Before submitting the ruined church at the beginning of S. XIX, neighbors called Ragol building a new one. According Madoz, built in 1820 is also a provisional collapsed in 1842, whose cause was enabled by a piece of property D. José María Hernández, secretary of the City Council. Belonging to the Count of Altamira and the transfer of competence from the Board of Diezmos the Ministry of Justice helped to delay the start of construction until 1861, when it is inscribed in the Papo one of the straps. The reconstruction was designed by Antonio Lopez Leon and Lara, who was replaced in the position of director by architect Fabio Gago in 1859. The result was a simple building that will reuse the old armor Mudéjar.

ERMITA QUBBA
Small chapel of a square and covered in a dome, attached now to housing. Dated in the XVIII-XIX.

It is one of the shrines of the half qubbas Andarax, just type used in the rest.

EL PILARICO
Source front of a pyramid and a rectangular pillar serving as a trough, the whole made of stone. It is the oldest source of the municipality.

FUENTE DE LA PLAZA
Source whose pillar is formed by three semicircles incomplete, while the central larger. The front is a wall that split two pipes.

It was built in 1936. Leading water from a source close to the town.

FUENTE JUEGO DE LA PELOTA 
Source recorded in a masonry wall, pouring water to a rectangular pillar by two meters of a roughly built of stone.

Built in 1936. Leading water from a source close to the town.

PUENTE DE LOS BOLICHES 
Puente large (25 m. long by 4 meters wide and over 25 meters high). With a single success. Built in stone, with the screw esquinales and traditional brick.

Denotes the historical importance of these roads.

PUENTE DEL BARRANCO LAS CUEVAS 
Vain for a single bridge, built in masonry; esquinales and the interior of the arch in brick alfahar. Pretil type are run. Built in the eighteenth century.

ACUEDUCTO DEL BARRANCO MARTIN 
Simple one-arch aqueduct, built in masonry and tapial allowing the canal to cross the ravine Alta Martin. It is an old book, before the nineteenth century (probably medieval).

RELOJ

Square tower, about 3.5 m. side, built in masonry, door adintelada, the vain and the steeple where the bell is located, are brick alfahar; chains appear at the corners with the same rig. Above the clock, appears the inscription: BUILT THIS WORKS THE CLOCK AND PURCHASED IN DECEMBER 1926, THE PRESIDENT OF CITY COUNCIL TO BE MAYOR D. ENRIQUE MATA.