Costa del Sol Towns

The Modern Torremolinos

Modern Torremolinos

During the first half of the nineteenth century everything was rebuilt again, as witnessed by the Statistician-Diccionario Geografico-Historico de Espana and its overseas possessions in the year 1849, were stated as being 14 flour mills, a paper estraza Batan and 785 inhabitants.

Around 1923 the decline of the milling industry began. Torremolinos then joined the capital in 1924 because of economic problems until September 27, 1988, which was kept secret from the municipality of Malaga in a process that lasted nearly twelve years. With the disappearance of the milling industry Torremolinos was a small fishing village until the end of the 1950s, when it then became one of the first resorts on the Costa del Sol

The first tourist establishments were Torremolinos golf course opened in 1928, the Castillo del Ingles, opened in 1930, the Parador de Montemar (1933) and The Rock Hotel, which opened in 1942, but due to the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

It was not until the 50’s when they began to produce Torremolinos celebrities like Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles and Frank Sinatra and the Costa del Sol began to acquire international fame. In 1959 the Hotel Pez Espada opened, the first luxury hotel on the coast. During the following years the opening of hotels, halls and other tourist establishments continued so that it radically changed the physiognomy of the town and its beaches.