The origin of this town dates back to the 15th century after the reconquest of the town by the Catholic Kings. Once the town was once again after the fighting, the Spanish kings handed 100 “fanegas” of land over to Don Diego Romero to compensate him for his bravery and feats during the battles.

Remains of axes and graves from the prehistoric period, and ceramic remains and daggers from the Phoenician or Tartars era have been found in and around the village.

Anyway, the first settlers in this area were the Romans and later the Arabs built a Mozarabic church in the 10th century. Centuries later on the Ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Fuensanta, which is one of seven of its kind in Andalusîa, was built on the same site.

However, it is from 1484 on that the village really began to grow between the property owned by Don Diego Romero (the current Palacio de Puerto Hermoso) and the Parish church, which still constitutes the centre of the village. In the documented census of Floridablanca conducted in 1787 the word that is used to describe this village is “a place” and is said to have a “local magistrate”. However, not long before this in 1748 there is a documented case of a fight with a village titled Alora over some grazing land used by cattle supposedly from Pizzara. This kind of dispute over land and grazing rights were constant during the second half of the 18th century and the first part of the next. However, this was not only the case with Pizzara,but also with Casarabonela and Cártama.

Due to this situation, the people of Alora made an official petition to the, then king Carlos 4th in 1803 for their complete independence as a “Villazgo”. However, it was the king Fernando VIIth in 1818 by the means of a royal declaration who finally granted their wish. Unfortunately, the edict did not come into force until 1821 and even then they had to wait until 1847 until the Supreme Court of Justice finally ratified the sentence and created the independent town of Alora. From that moment on it experienced growth for a while, until it plateaued off and even began to lose inhabitants to othe towns. This decline was stopped by the beginning of the construction of the railway track between Malaga and Cordoba that began in 1859, as well as the Malaga to Alora road. Both of these constuction projects were key to people reconsidering their decisions to leave and as a result the town once again experienced a period of growth, as did the agricultural industries and trade in general in the town.

Some very important, unique events have taken place in Pizarra over the years, amongst which was what is known historically as the “Conference of Pizarra”, which was celebrated at the Palacio de Puerto Hermoso on 5th February 1992. Talks were held during this Conference about the war in Morocco. At that time the town itself had only existed as such for 75 years and it was priviledged to have been chosen by people such as the President of the Spanish government of the day, Don Antonio Maura, the High Commisioner of Spain for Morocco (General Berenger) and the Admiral Aznar and several ministers of the likes of the War Minister, Don Juan de la Cierva. During the Conference they discussed the surrender of El Rasauri and the operational projects of Alhucermas, which the General from Jerez, Primo de Rivera was in charge of supervising.

The inhabitants of Pizarra are divided up between the town centre and the two hamlets on the outskirts of the town: Zalea and Cerralba. Of its 64 square kilometres of land, some 4.300 hectares is completely dry barren land where the almond and olive crops are the most important and to a lesser extent cereal crops, while some 2.000 metres is irrigated farmed lamd on which the main crops that are grown are lemon and orange tree orchards. As for animal farming, there is an important size range of hens and a number of cattle as well.

Its priviledged location at the foot of a cliffy outcrop of the same name, allows Pizarra to enjoy a wonderful natural environment with century-old trees, almond, fig, oak and olive trees, which give the whole area a special beauty all year round. Water is also an important protagonist in this area as it flows down to the town from the high cliffy mountains that lie just behind the town centre and feeds sevearl natural streams and fountains which are spread out all over the municipality. There are several drinking fountains around the village for visitors and locals alike, to enjoy the taste of the pure mountain water.