Costa del Sol Towns

Torrox Sights & Attractions

 

 

The Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation, a baroque structure, with three ships, besides its square tower. It was founded in the fifteenth century and restored in the seventeenth century.  It towers over the old mosque. The Church of San Roque, the sixteenth century. This chapel is simple, has a single nave with apse, choir and belfry. 


The Convent of Our Lady of the Snows, in Mudejar style, founded by the Fathers of San Francisco minima in the sixteenth century. The old sugar mill in San Rafael, pre-nineteenth century, one of the largest in the province of Malaga. Located in the area of La Rabitilla. The aqueduct of La Granja, used until the nineteenth century. The hospital in San Jose, the eighteenth century, in ruins, today is not preserved and which instead is building an apartment building that respects the original form of the old hospital. 

La Casa de la Cultura, built in 1863, hosted by King Alfonso XII during a visit he made during an earthquake that punished some of the Axarquia.  Several buildings from the Muslim period.  The Roman ruins located near the Faro de Torrox, in Torrox Costa. 

This site corresponds to the Roman town known as Clavicum or Caviclum, founded in the first century and inhabited until the early eighth century. There are remains of a villa, a necropolis, baths, pools and common pottery kilns. The watchtowers of the Muslim era, one in the Penoncillo and another in the Gui River because Wee had a separate identity from the year 1200 AD. 

 

 

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