History

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History of Torremolinos According to some historians, the first settlements in what is now the end of Torremolinos was remounting the Stone Age. However, the earliest evidence ofhuman presence dating back to Torremolinos goes as far back as the Neolithic period. According to Juan Temboury, the environment of the Punta deTorremolinos offered ideal conditions for human habitation such as rockshelters, good weather and water

The Coats of Punta de Torremolinos, are said to have been ideal for prehistoric settlements. In thisarea people have found the remains of human skulls, bones, clay pots, axes andarrow points to support this theory.

Ancient According to Ptolemy, the Phoenicians founded near the city of Torremolinos Saduce, butit was the Romans who settled in the territory of the current municipal Torremolinense, as attested by the remains of the amphorae and salt factories found in the vicinity of the beaches and the public baths of Castle Rock.

TheRomans built the road that linked with Gades Malaccan facing Torremolinos, around which were several villas and three salting factories. The spiral construction of the twentieth century caused the disappearance of two of the three factories under the foundations of new buildings as well as the tip of the caves where they found prehistoric and Roman remains.

However, the evidencethen appeared in a small Roman necropolis which confirmed the existence of avillage of about 2000 years old . La Torre de los Molinos, is the origin of the name of the municipality.

Middle AgesAt this time, the Muslim aparecerecieron mills came to existence in the nineteenth century and although the human presence was reduced, permanent settlements developed around them. By 1300 the dynasty of the Nazarene began construction of a beacon tower and appeared as Torre de los Molinos, who completed the composition of the name of Torremolinos.

ModernAgeAfter the Christian conquest of the Kingdom of Granada, Torremolinos was exposed to raids by pirates well into the eighteenth century, and this delayed development of the village population.

There is documented evidence inthe Archives of Simancas that two whips occurred in 1522 and 1524 in which several men were captured and probably sold as slaves in Oranand Algiers,where he was based in Barbarossa. Admiral George Rooke in 1704 then destroyed Torremolinos. Later, piracy would be replaced by the Arabic languages.

During the War of Spanish Succession, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, commanded by English admiral George Rooke, looted and burned houses and mills, which totally destroyed Torremolinos, leaving it to recover very slowly. It is because of this destruction that the census of 1769 shows that the population was composed ofonly 106 residents. In 1763 the problem of piracy led to the construction of the Castle of Santa Claraand a battery of guns in the nearby hills Montemar, which still remains.