Merchants, traders and workers wanted the simplest line,
was an independent municipality
of San Roque, controlled
by the military, wealthy landowners and aristocrats. It was January 17th
1870 when it authorized the segregation of La Linea del Ayuntamiento de San
Roque, and granted grasses, fruits, harvesting and uses falling within the
jurisdictional term.
Thus was born a little over 300 inhabitants of Gibraltar
Line, which inherited the name of the fortification population with the birth. The newborn town lay
between the current Plaza de la Iglesia, Plaza de la Constitucion, Real Street, Garden Street and
Avenue Spain. It has a cemetery,
the command, an office, a carabinieri barracks and other troops, beyond the
neighborhood of Breakwater and far on the Levante beach, La Tuna / Tunara,
fishing village that began as a neighborhood La Linea, but its origins
date back no more than 640 years before the city itself.
Among all these many orchards were those of Peter Vejer,
Mondejar, the English, Fava, Recagno, Genovese, Russi, and so on. On July 20th
1870, the municipality
of La Linea with their first
mayor-president Lutgardo Lopez Munoz, elected a neighborhood committee appointed by the county council.
In the first session of the new city hall, they chose the name of the
population and unanimously decided on the La Linea de la Concepcion, as the
Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the Spanish army. This name was
changed several times, but remains the original proposal, and in 1883 the name
appeared in the record books. In 1913 King Alfonso XIII
granted the title of city to La Linea de la Concepcion.
