 Antonio Sáez Sáez became mayor of Chercos in the 1940s and was the principal architect behind the plan to move the old town of Chercos a few kilometres away, off the isolated mountainside and onto one of the few flat spots in the Sierra de los Filabres.Chercos was by then a mere shadow of what it had once been.By the 1940s it was a village inhabited by an ever-shrinking population consisting of small landowners.