Cieza can be named the northern door to the Region of Murcia. A town with almost 32.000 citizens and natural capital of the district of Vega Alta del Segura. It is head of the juridical partition, and the limits of the town extends over 365 Km2, and 190 mts over the sea level.

It's economy is based on the agriculture, mainly in the cultivation of the melocoton (Cieza is the world leader in melocoton production) and the olive (olive has been catalogued by the European Union as one of the most traditional food in Region de Murcia).

The division of construction and services has a Special interest, centerd in the small shop.

Populated since the most ancient times, it counts with unique paleolithic deposits in the mediterranean arc (Almadenes and Barranco de los Grajos). Also, there are neolithic deposits (La Serreta and Los Grajos).

Place of the íberic culture later (Bolvaz deposit), by romans and visigodos and by the arabians, who left the archeologic set of Medina Siyâsa, dispopulated in the centuries XI-XIII, placed down the castle, which is sited on a mountain near Cieza.

Many decorative elements for the architecture have been found in the digged zone, as the arcs and portics engraved, some of them polichromed, as ceramics, glasses, metals, and so on. All these discoveries are kept in the museum of Siyâsa.

In the Collado de la Atalaya is placed the Ermita de la Virgen del Buen Suceso (pattern of the town), and from its balcony we can joy a panoramic view of Cieza, and of its irrigated land by the Segura river.

Walking by the city street, we can see the Plaza de España, with the majestic modern market built in 1929 by Julio Carrilero. A usual place for meeting and walking for the ciezans, where August vervains take place, and the Melocoton party.

El Paseo (The avenue), plain, straight and of pleasant dimensions, it's probably the most beautiful of the region, and undoubtly the most valuable, because of containing the pictoric work in glazed tile of José Lucas, who dedicated it to several man of letters in the history.

The main of the churches is the Basílica de la Asunción (XVIII century), inside there are esculptures and ###retablos### by Planes, Pinazo, González Moreno, etc. It's important the neorromanic tower and the beautiful atriums (Puertas de San Pedro and Santa María). The Iglesia de San Joaquín, of the XVII century, is a primitive franciscan monastery in which we can see the cloister, easy and quiet. The church-monastery of the Clarisas, from the XVIII century, which we find walking by a beatiful courtyard, which is also door to the nun's orchard, which still exists in the center of the town. The Ermita del Santo Cristo del Consuelo of neogothic-mudéjar style, C. XIX, appears on the primitive Ermita del Buen Suceso, and domains a precious area of the irrigated land and the river.

El Balcón del Muro is an historical collection compound by the old fortress of the XV century and the current wall, work of 1898, promoted by Cánovas del Castillo. Near the wall is placed the Ermita de San Bartolomé (patron saint of the town), which is the old Torreón del Homenaje of the fortress, which in it's upper body is placed the Conjuratorio, one of the only places in the region, from where the fields were blessed.

But what Cieza primary is, is a priviliged placed because of the great weather and the good hand of the man in the irrigated land. That, companied by the Segura river and the presence of the Atalaya, configures the ciezan space, making it ideal for walking. Choosing the Veredas, the roads of the Atalaya, the Paseo de Ronda, you'll find inside the ciezan irrigated land, pregnant in fruit trees, perfumed, sinous, irregular, arabian and roman, and in spring of a floral splendor with no equal in the world. And Cieza is also olive trees, some of them centenial, which keep an appreciated table olive.

Being literaly seemed of ways, roads, and paths, Cieza is an ideal place to walk or cycling, crossing areas of singular beauty. An special mention deserves the place of Almadenes (specially protected zone), lost paradise with no equal beauty, in which tectonic canyon, the Segura river shows all his braveness.