Costa del Sol Towns

History of Rincon de la Victoria

 

With the arrival of Ferdinand and Isabella there was a decline that continued until the eighteenth century. During this time the core Benagalbon became the center of town while the coastal area was almost deserted and abandoned, with the exception of some sales along the road from Malaga-Almerķa.  During the reign of Charles III they reconstructed ancient beacon towers and the House-Fort Bezmiliana was a cornerstone in the new defensive line to fight coastal British privateers, which had seized Gibraltar and the nearby Plaza Menorca. 

After the war there remained core corner agriculture and fisheries in which some functions were also developed for leisure and relaxation, which from the 1960s derived of the construction of apartments and holiday homes. 

 

However, tourism activities would be curtailed by the phenomenon of suburbanization that affected the municipality due to rising house prices in Malaga and improving communications between the two locations, because, although the railway line was closed down by 1968, it was building new roads for traffic. The urbanization process finally produced the dismantling of the agricultural sector and limited the municipality within the residential belt capital.

It also restored the old path.  In the late eighteenth century the Benagalbon economy was based on the cultivation of the vine to produce grapes and wine, but at the end of the century the situation changed radically because of the plague of phylloxera, whose first buds appeared just at Benagalbon, which completely destroyed the vineyards, leading to migration.

                                                           
On the coast on the other hand, improved communication channels and increasing population of the city of Malaga and fishing activities, created new settlements of fishermen. It was during these years that the heart of Rincon de la Victoria on the slopes of the former Bezmiliana, became the administrative center municipal. 

 

The prevalence of coastline on the inside would be increased from 1904 with the construction of the Malaga-Velez-Malaga Malaga suburban railways, which would include three stops in the town, and accounted for a revolution in communications with neighboring coastal towns, especially in the provincial capital. 

Meanwhile, the interior continued to lose prominence and the first voices arose calling for the relocation of the municipal administration to shore, where it formed a municipal heritage table, a chair and a book of records. The Spanish Civil War interrupted the administrative transfer process and it would not be until 1949 when the changes occurred.

The archaeological remains found in the Cave of the Treasury and other shelters in the municipality show that the territory occupies the corner Vicotria and were inhabited since the Paleolithic era.  There remains a wall dating from approximately 1000 BC that might contain an Iberian village, based on these assumptions and remains.

 
Around 50 AD the Phoenicians settled on a hill near the coast and later the Romans built a fortified town which they called Bezmiliana. Others have speculated the possible existence of a Greek colony in the area, without any findings to prove this theory. The Roman Bezmiliana (which some call Mismiliana whips and other variants) flourished in the dawn of salting factories and Sauces. But during the Andalusian era gained more notoriety when, as in the eleventh century Al-Idrisi spoke of two mosques.