Alhaurín de la Torre In MalagaAlhaurín de la Torre (pop 2006 30,281) is a municipality in Málaga province in Andalusia, Southern Spain. The municipality is part of Málaga Metropolitan Area, but traditionally belongs to the Guadalhorce Valley shire. It sits at the incoming to the Guadalhorce valley on the slopes of the Sierra de Mijas mountains, 10.5 miles (17 km) from Málaga city.
The lineage of the locate 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 after the Romans titled it Lauro Vetus. The Moors, in their time, titled it Albarracín, and it grew from that into a larger collection of farm-houses. The re-conquest of the municipality in 1485 meant another variation on the name, and the locate was finally titled Alhaurín de la Torre. The population accumulated sharply due to the influx of Christian settlers after 1571. There are many archaeological relic in the municipality, most of them existence in the Estación de la Alquería area, officially designated as existence of Cultural Interest.
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