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Torremolinos
There is already hardly anyone who remembers
the recent past of Torremolinos, when, back in the thirties,
the place was a tiny hamlet with not even 25 houses, all dotted
along a single street.
It then had 18 flourmills, witnesses to the
coming and going on peasants with their carts loaded with
wheat or flour. All that remains of that epoch are a few millstones
and a very ancient watchtower, which, in days long gone by,
had served to prevent the attacks of pirates from the Barbary
Coasts.
The transformation of Torremolinos began to
escalate in the fifties, when foreign tourism discovered the
vast beaches of the place and its excellent climate. Artists,
aristocrats, men and women of letters, politicians, and other
visitors of high rank then began to frequent the village;
their presence has given Torremolinos a singular rhythm of
life.
At every corner one finds pubs, clubs,
nightclubs, in short, all sorts of places where there is high
life at all times of the day or night. It is an atmosphere
begging description, which, together with that generated by
Marbella, is the key of the international success and renown
of the Costa del Sol.
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