Costa del Sol Towns
Malaga
in the Nineteenth Century
Execution of Torrijos and his men on the
beach of San
Andrés, 1831
For much of the turbulent nineteenth century, Malaga was one of the most disturbed and yet
was also the country and home to several surveys for a more liberal regime.
Revolutionary activity is worth heading to the city, it may be "always
hard" and as the legend says "the first in danger of liberty".
Malaga was a pioneer city in the peninsula with the onset of
the Industrial Revolution, becoming the first industrial city in Spain, and then maintaining second place behind Barcelona for many years.
The business sector also had a significant increase in 1865 and 1860 suffered a
major communications revolution.
This was the era of
the great bourgeois families of Malaga,
with some influences on national policies. Under the influence of these
families, Malaga had two well defined sectors, both situated outside the center
of medieval origin in the western end of the urban landscape as it began to
take shape, influenced by the industrial activity, while at the other end of
town there began appear villas and hotels.
The resignation of the throne of Savoy Amadeo caused great unrest among the
city cantonal states, creating the Guangzhou Malaga. Malaga political life during the democratic
administration (1868-1874) was marked by a radical and extremist tone. The
federal republicanism, which achieved strong support in the lower classes,
encouraged turbulences and attitudes that caused great alarm among the
affluent.
The decline of the
city started in 1880. The crisis made malaguenas foundries close and was
followed by the scourge of phylloxera, which sank the Andalusia Malagueno
vineyards. The neglect of these properties resulted in heavy deforestation of
hillsides, causing an increase in flood water, which caused many disasters and
deaths well into the twentieth century
