During the 60's & 70's many artists, poets and writer moved to the Mojacar area repopulating the once abandoned village, many renovating old cortijos and village houses. The local town hall encourage the new comers to repopulate the area after mass migration in the 1950's by giving away land and property to those who would rebuild and inhabit them. Those times have long gone and the pueblo is a popular place to live with it's narrow cobbled streets and white washed houses. There are many bars and restaurants and a number of shop mostly selling artisan products and tourist related souvenirs. You will see on houses and cars the Indalo Man a local emblem that is supposed to bring protection. It was first discovered in a cave near Velez Rubio in the north of the province. Mojacar is also famed for being the birth place of Walt Disney or so I am told. During the month of July the village holds it annual fiesta of the Moors & Christians and visitors from around the world come to see its dazzling parades.