The Evolution of ‘Cascamorras’
Every fiesta rolls one back to the times that actually evoked the times, times of festivity, now. Ages back in 1490, there stood a Mozarbiac chapel on the land of ‘Baza’, which got set to be demolished and replaced by the church called Iglesia de la Merced. One of the worker from another town Guadix, named Cascamorras,while trembling the old structure discovered a buried statue of Virgen de la Piedad. But this discovery arose conflict between the two towns, for both wanted its possession. The gist of the issue was that the sculpture belonged to Baza people whilst the discoverer was from guadix. And hence followed the intervention of the court of those times, which decreed statue’s restoration in Baza, for it was Baza’s property.