It's one of the most extensive municipalities in Granada, with a height that arrives, from the 850 meters on the level of the sea, until the peak of El Veleta with 3.398 meters.

The history of Dilar begins a lot before the arrival of the Arabs to the Iberian Peninsula; not in vain toward 1850 a hunter when were going after a wounded rabbit and were trying to take it out of the burrow discovered an important dolmen of prehistoria times surrounded by a cromlech formed by stones of considerable height, very close to the Rural House.

Toward the year 1125 the king D. Anfonso I the Fighter, king from Aragon, arrived in the town of Dilar, establishing his camp at the sight of Granada, protected by the Sierra and dedicating his time to the reorganization of his hosts and harassing the enemy. D. Alfonso I the Fighter returned to his kingdom of Arag6n and the Christian didn't return to the town of Dilar until the year previous to the conquest of Granada, that was in 1492.

Dilar is a town proud of its natural wealth, of its water, of its abunfant and pure water (that comes directly from Sierra Nevada's summits). Besides the river Dilar, there are also two irrigation channels: la Alta and la Baja which bathe the town and give supply of water to different towns of the region of Granada.

Their people are kind and friendly. Its mediterranean climate, the channels and the river that surround the valleys of Dilar, make from this region one of the most beautiful in all Spain. If we also added its privileged location near to Granada capital, to the Tropical coast, to Sierra Nevada and to la Alpujarra we speak of one spend a wonderful holidays or just to live.

The inhabitants of Dilar are around 1600, right in the middle of Sierra Nevada's National Park. Inside its municipal term it is the peak El Veleta, the second higher peak in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as numerous summits above the 2.500 meters where the snow is always present. The town of Dilar with its special and rich wine makes of its parties an authentic festival of the gastronomy and of the entertainment (pucherico de War, fiesta de la Matanza, fiesta de la Castana, fiesta del. Mosto, iesta de la Virgen de Agosto).