Costa del Sol Towns
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 of
human presence dating back to Torremolinos goes as far back as the Neolithic
period. According to Juan Temboury, the environment of the Punta de
Torremolinos offered ideal conditions for human habitation such as rock
shelters, good weather and water
The Coats of Punta de
Torremolinos, are said to have been ideal for prehistoric settlements. In this
area people have found the remains of human skulls, bones, clay pots, axes and
arrow points to support this theory.
Ancient
According to Ptolemy, the Phoenicians founded near the city of Torremolinos Saduce, but
it 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. The
Romans 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 evidence
then appeared in a small Roman necropolis which confirmed the existence of a
village of about 2000 years old .
La Torre de los Molinos, is the origin of the name of the municipality.
Middle Ages
At 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.
Modern
Age
After 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 in
the Archives of Simancas that two whips occurred in 1522 and 1524 in which
several men were captured and probably sold as slaves in Oran
and 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 of
only 106 residents.
In 1763 the problem of piracy led to the construction of the Castle of Santa Clara
and a battery of guns in the nearby hills Montemar, which still remains.
