The entrances to the Hotel Sol Don Pedro and Sol Don Pablo in Torremolinos in Andalucia, Southern Spain, Europe

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 Andalucia 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. Areas of the town are dominated by high-rise development. Archaeological finds of human bones, tools and pottery prove that the history of Torremolinos dates back 150, 000 years. The region has always been inhabited by progressive civilizations, such as Phoenicians, Romans and the Moors, whose artefacts can still be admired today, for example the 12 ft high defence tower “Torre de los Molinos” (The Tower of the Mills) of Arabian origin which is located in the centre of the town in the Calle San Miguel.