Torremolinos - Spain
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Torremolinos is a
tourism-oriented
city and
municipality on the
Costa
del Sol of the
Mediterranean, immediately to the west of the city of
Málaga, in the
province of
Málaga in the autonomous region of
Andalusia
in southern Spain.
A poor fishing village before the growth in tourism beginning in the late
1950s,
Torremolinos was the first of the
Costa
del Sol resorts to develop. It is very popular with
British tourists and has a large
British
expatriate population. The town is dominated by high-rise development.
From its condition of being a municipality pioneer in the tourism boom of our country, Torremolinos is, above all, a hospitable and cheerful town open to others where in the last years they have dedicated their efforts to improve facilities and services until they have achieved a wide and varied leisure offer without comparison throughout Spain. Torremolinos, as you already know, was a neighbourhood of Málaga from 1924 but it stood out in the tourist field for its own merits. The airport was very busy with tourists looking for sun and beaches. Famous people such as the actress Ava Gardner, empress Soraya, film director Orson Wellles, the actors Ralph Vallone, Boris Karloff , or Frank Sinatra were seen at the Café Central, in the nightclub El Mañana, en the flamenco dancing floors El Jaleo and El Piyayo. Novelists and poets wrote here their best works; Here, Michener wrote “Hijos de Torremolinos”, Juan Goytisolo finished “La Isla”, Fernando Sánchez Dragó, “El Dorado”, Souvirón , “Cristo en Torremolinos”, the bohemian Coco Blanco, “Torremolinos 1955”, Angel Palomino, “Torremolinos Gran Hotel”. Torremolinos is one of the settings in the novel The Drifters by James A. Michener.
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