The canon D. José Moreno Maldonado (1867-1935) was born here, to a carpenter father, trained in his childhood by D. Fernando de Hermosa y Santiago. He was an outstanding and outstanding student at the Malagueño Council Seminary.

Due to his intense academic activity, and his artistic sensitivity, he was part of the Provincial Commission of Historical-Artistic Monuments of Malaga and Seville. He was Doctoral Canon of the Cathedral of Seville during the years 1912-1935, a position in which he distinguished himself by his pondering, brilliance, equanimity and restraint. At this time he took charge of the Capitular and Colombina library.

He came to be named Preminent Academician in the Seville Royal Academy of Good Letters, and in his admission speech in 1915 he dealt with "Sobriety in Art", based on the importance of fair proportion in art as an essential factor of good taste. , something that corresponds to the artistic instinct of the peoples.

With special dedication, he applied himself to the study of history, archeology and science, revealing interesting research on the discoveries made in the excavations of the Alcazaba in Malaga, and which led him to be proposed and admitted as a Corresponding Academician at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in 1907.

Always interested in the things of his town, he collected in two handwritten volumes the most curious and notable facts in the history of his hometown, which he titled
"For the Coinense History with the annotations that I Moreno have busily collected everywhere in Coin."

He is currently studied as one of the first archaeologists and defenders of the heritage of Malaga.