sentences:  Several settlements from the Iberian period exist within the castle grounds.The municipality has the highest number of Roman artifacts discovered in the comarca, especially the large quantity of gravestones, including the unique gravestone of "Quintia Prova" of Hispania on which the cost of a Roman arch with two statues is mentioned.The first references to the present nucleus of the settlement are in the period of Muslims' presence in the area, including the Taifa of Valencia and following the disintegration of the Caliph of Córdoba in 1027 and then the subsequent capture of the area by El Cid in 1098.