Socovos, from the Treaty of Alcaraz to the commandery Historical milestone · Socovos, Sierra del Segura, Albacete Image of Socovos, not of the place itself. The pact of Alcaraz of 1243 took Socovos from the taifa of Murcia to Castilian rule under the future Alfonso X; the town ended up being the head of one of the three commanderies that the Order of Santiago had in the present province of Albacete. 1243 Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Lionni assumed (based on copyright claims). (Public domain) What to see and do in Socovos