HISTORY
During the sixteenth century, in the time of Felipe II, there was an morisco uprising of in Granada city and the villages of the Alpujjaras. Following the uprising the inhabitants were exiled resulting Lubrín being left totally uninhabited. The town was later repopulate with 28 families from different parts of Spain, from Lorca to Galicia. The new town was founded in 1528.
Lubrín initially belonged to the Lordship of the Marquis of Carpio and then later to the Dukes of Berwik and Alba. Its economy was based on agriculture and livestock, and the most important crops were wheat and olive, which together with wine and chickpeas were exported to Lorca, Murcia and Almeria.
The town underwent another depopulation from the beginning of the twentieth century with the majority of the population emigrating to the United States. Iron ore mining became important in Lubrín which employed five hundred people between 1953 and 1957. During the crisis of the 60s, many villagers emigrated to Catalonia.