Valleseco is a green and mountainous municipality if ever there was one, despite its name meaning dry valley; its lush, woody vegetation has always been a natural pine and laurel landscape, but also now has another tree which for the last couple of centuries has taken pride of place in its agricultural production. The whole thing started around the middle of the 19th century, 1843 to be exact, when this area became a formal municipality, and one of its first mayors decided to promote the plantation of apple trees, of the pippin variety, in 1858, as a way of making proper use of fallow land.
