HISTORY
Remains have been found and preserved from the Neolithic to the High Middle Ages, most of which, where Neolithic settlement sat the hillside of Cerro del Castillo. The Romans baptized the settlement with the name of Ipagro.
Christianization of the areawas already in place during the acts of the Council of Elvira in the year 306, in which its Bishop Simagine participated. It is also known that as of the year 839, Recafredo, Bishop of Córdoba, was also Bishop of Ipagro.
Under the Arab rule it was known as,Bulay or Poley, and it was Omar ben Hafsun, leader of the Muladi, who used it as a base of operations
The town was re-conquered by Fernando III, as part of Córdoba, until in 1275 when King Alfonso X gave it to, Don Gonzalo Yáñez, who changed the name of the town to Aguilar in memory of his mother, the Portuguese Lady María Méndez de Aguilar.
Aguilar returned to belong to the Crown and was donated first by King Peter I (Pedro el Cruel or Pedro el Justo) to his tutor, Don Alonso Fernández Coronel and then changed to Don Gonzalo Fernández de Cordoba by King Enrique II on his accession in 1369.
The Manor of Aguilar was maintained until the end of the eighteenth century.