El Palmar, Murcia


El Palmar is a village and a district in Murcia, Spain. It is part of the municipality of Murcia.

Geography

This territory is located in the foothill of the mountain pass Puerto de la Cadena. There is distance of 5 km from El Palmar to the capital of the municipality.

History

There is evidence about the Roman presence in this territory in the Roman Hispanian era. The evidence consists in archaeological remains of a Roman hamlet whose date is the 2nd century BC.
During the Middle Ages a castle named La Asomada was built in the century 12th.