Alhaurín de la Torre
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Alhaurín de la Torre (pop (2005) 28,509) is a town in Málaga province in Andalucia in Southern Spain. It sits at the entrance to the Guadalhorce valley on the slopes of the Sierra de Mijas, 17 kilometres from Málaga city. The traditional and the modern live comfortably side by side in this town, with its old Moorish-style streets and houses in the Barrio Viejo and the modern housing estates and villas on the outskirts. Alhaurín de la Torre has become a prosperous municipality in which services are the main source of income, but it was historically an agrarian village, where citric and sub-tropical fruit plantations and olive groves covering the landscape.
[edit] History
The origin of the place goes back to pre-historic times, and it is known that the Phoenicians that set up factories in Málaga and Cártama in about 1,000 B.C. settled in Alhuarín. It was here that Lauro was founded, and centuries later the Romans called it Lauro Vetus. The Moors, in their time, called it Albarracín, and it grew from that into a larger collection of farm-houses. The re-conquest of the town in 1485 meant another variation on the name, and the place was finally called Alhaurín de la Torre. The population increased sharply due to the influx of Christian settlers after 1571. There are many archaeological remains in the municipality, most of them being in the Estación de la Alquería area, officially designated as being of Cultural Interest.
[edit] Trivia
The town has become very famous in the media because of its VIP prison inmates linked to the unique Marbella corruption scandal - many members of Marbella council are imprisoned there.
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