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This locality includes the Roman Villa of San Benito, where
coins have been found from the Roman Empire (1st century A.D.). In
the Santa Marina mountain range a former Roman camp known as the
House of the Praetor is located, where paved rooms with square
and hexagonal floor tiles have been documented and a system of water
conduction.
There
is also some information relating to the visigothic period. There
is reference to an altar that was found in the hermitage of Our Lady
of Tebas.
Cardinal Trejo was born here. He held, among other positions,
Inquisitor (Inquisition) of the Court, Major Chaplain of the Descalzas
and Judge of the Royal Council. While he occupied these positions
at the request of the monarch Felipe III, he received the cardinal's
hat by Pope Paul V on December 2, 1615. He was a member of the congregation
of cardinals that were called to regulate for the Council, on the
Index of prohibited books, and of the congregation of the Inquisition.
 In
Rome he became the king's ambassador, one of the highest distinctions
in those times. Also he was conferred the title of Commissioner General
of the Crusade because of illness by Don Martin of Cordova. He obtained
the archbishopric of Salermo by king Felipe IV, in the kingdom of
Naples, whose Lord and prince belonged to the noble family of the
Grimaldos of Genoa, from which the cardinal descended. In order that
he lived in Rome with dignity and comfort, the king granted him the
benefits of the abbey of Burgo-Hondo, archdeaconship of Calatrava
and a canonisation in the cathedral of Toledo.
Bishop Ramirez, who was from Calaorra (Logroño), is buried
in the above mentioned Cathedral, he was also born in the Palace of
the Count of Olive.
Miguel del Barco, ecclesiastical and writer, was born at Casas
de Millán in the year 1706. He studied philosophy in the University
of Salamanca and it was grammar teacher. It entered in Jesus' Company
May 18 1728. In 1735 it traveled to the viceroyalty of New Spain,
political-administrative entity settled down by the Spanish kings
during the colonial period in the territories of the current Mexico,
to begin their activities like missionary. In 1738, it left heading
for California, where it remained until the expulsion of the Jesuits
in 1767. To him the construction of the church of San Javier Biaundo
Mission is owed. Interested by the nature and the customs of the inhabitants
from California, he wrote several works, some of which were used to
form the History of California of Francisco Javier Clavijero. It died
expatriated in Bologna (Italy) October 24 1790.
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