"His footprints on earth will show you their story, as if you saw with your own eyes.
By God never bring times other similar
to dominate the peninsula and lead the armies like him. " Ibn
Idari
take down the bells, one by one and demanded that they move to Córdoba. He ordered his bodyguards to guard the tomb of the saint. There were razed and Zamora and Leon on his way to Santiago de Compostela and once there left no stone unturned. Was cadid of Seville, the head of all armies. He had an uncompromising power, a superb character
recently before his fall in the battle of Calatañazor. Abo Muhammed Ben Abi-Amir Amer, Mansur still remembered his childhood in Turrus Hins, instead of glories of the Umayyad Cordoba, where the rebel Ben Omar muladí Hafsún definitely fell to the absolute power of Abderrahman III. He had grown up in these winding streets, running after other children. Christians know him as Mansur and feared his sword, his brutality, his ferocity. But the child knew only Torrox Abo-Amir, who saw his village surrendered to the Christian troops in 1487, and how the Moorish revolt was quelled so at the battle of the Rock of Frigiliana in 1571. This land rich in history, in abundance, was also littered with conquests and surrenders. Torrox Almanzor cradle. An approach
Torrox halved its essence. The first one is like a beach, Roman villa, garum factory. The second, essentially mountainous, streets intertwined, inextricable. Torrox Costa and Torrox Pueblo live, as its slogan brings in the place with the "better climate" with an average annual temperature of 19 º C. Has, in addition to the stories mentioned on Mansur, a connection with the discovery of America, as a Torrox, Luis de Torres, was on the expedition with three ships of Columbus. With these raw make a basket that will fit the stories of Caviclum of Mansur, the Casa de la Joya ... all located on the table for an impossible Arabic layout of streets, narrow, twisted ... and the clear look at the mediterranean beaches. Home of the visit, first impressions and the Church of the Incarnation
started the visit in Torrox Pueblo, just three miles from his parish at sea. We parked the car in a large car park which is situated at the entrance to the left, without going to enter into the city center. From here, a walk attached to a row of houses will take us to the Plaza de la Constitution. Low houses, pots on the walls studded with flowers and plants. Aromas of pots and pans fall to stout. The morning sun illuminates the streets, cobbled aseadísimas. In the municipal website 
Torrox, very complete, we offer in the category of multiple paths to make tourism. We decided to carry out the Historic Road was considered the most complete, leaving from the Plaza of the Constitution and then follow the steps indicated to us, but we introduce our changes before you get there. Joke take the right street, continue on it until we join the Peace Street. The compliments of the route will mark all the way, narrow streets afforded by large 
surprises. This is the first case. After leaving the Peace humble street to Plaza de Oriente, where a balconied stairway greet us with their pots and pots bloom. Everything is color. We shot a few photos and continue to discover corners and bends. Go down the street Kiss (whose plate is decorated with their own, a boy and girl kissing) until near the Constitution Square and the Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation. We have encountered a maze of streets that we had to relocate in a couple of occasions. We will discover in these losses, which every so often, 
on wall is a plaque that reads Route Almanzor. We have followed and brought us to the desired locations. We will check later that the route you wish to make the visit overlaps almost point for point with it. We have already glimpsed the church from the arrival in Torrox. Curiously, the color, ocher, dark. More closely we see that the walls are engraved with geometric figures that recur throughout his basement. The main entrance is via a road on the right, but access to the interior from stairs. The church, built in the seventeenth century on an ancient mosque was rebuilt in 1889. The interior is simple, almost severe. The altar is dominated by a wooden cross. Highlights the wood paneled ceiling reddish and hard. From the church go down to the Place de la Constitution. The Constitution Square
is a large square, large, with many restaurants open and tapas under the warm sun of the autumn morning. Presides over what was popularly known as Casa de la Hoya, such was the importance of this building that King Alfonso XII himself stayed there during the visit to the village in 1885 after the earthquake that devastated the area of Axarquia in the nativity of that year. From the square we get a remarkable view of the whole church, which is trimmed with blue 
the sky. A group of foreign residents is based on one of the terraces, drink cold beer, and despite the tone of the time look shirt. It is worth stopping in the square, walk it, enjoy it, look under the Casa de la Hoya, access to courts, a short walk from orange to form an important yard. Precisely in this part of the street Elisa Ortigosa. The start of our tour of the city center. From the street Elisa Ortigosa access the street down, one of the main streets of Torrox. to the church of San Roque
Lower Street was one of the trade routes of Torrox. Some splendid homes and businesses attest this past. At the beginning of the street we met two Arab towers, painted yellow albero in which a plaque states that "According to legend, the prince lived here for Rahman after landing at Almuñécar in September 775. Antonio Segovia Lobillo, Poets and writers of Axarquia. Little remains of that original building, but it's be interesting to know that we walk along the defensive line which was formerly the city. We continue our tour of 
Lower Street to meet, just ten meters from the tower, Calle Santa Teresa, which has the particularity to show a series of three arches connecting the two side walls that form the street. And it left and right down the street we will find numerous examples of Moorish urban design. Narrow streets and steep stairs that lead nowhere, squares and plazas preceded by ramparts, flowering corners, surprising twists. While the reference to the main street, walk down some of these places, we inquire, seek, throw some pictures. 
continue the journey to meet outside the house that was the Inquisition or Algassy Alonso. Is not in good condition, but on the outside reflects perfectly the majesty that had to take another time. Later in our walk we ran into the Mint or Customs, denoting their presence the importance it once had Torrox after the discovery of America. Know whether this had influenced the presence of Luis de Torres in the role of the ship Santa Maria. Luis de Torres, Torrox Jewish origin, was the "Languages" by Columbus on his voyage of discovery of America. 
is nicknamed as "Tongues" to the performers. Luis de Torres had made use of their linguistic knowledge in the court of the governor of Murcia. There are a couple of legends about Luis Torres and his knowledge of languages. "In some books in English too Torres stated that he discovered the turkey (turkey, in English) when they had named after the biblical Hebrew term tukki (parrot). Another legend how much to return to Spain snuff and smoked there and he was accused of witchcraft by the Inquisition. Not to mention the Jewish origins of Torres, some Islamist websites have defended the presence of a English speaking Arabic on the first voyage of Columbus as a test of the antiquity of the presence of Arabs in America. These assumptions were based on the article by Phyllis McIntosh in a publication, Washington File, State Department of 
United States (the August 23, 2004): "It is likely that Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, tracing its path across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of an Arab navigator," so says wikipedia. Today the Mint Museum houses a miniature Torrox. Continue and before you reach the square of San Roque, where the shrine of the same name. A time to turn left to cross, round trip, street alley gate, a narrow passage leading to a new maze of streets. We arrived at the plaza of San Roque, a secluded place and collected, whose sidewalks grow orange (fruit filled) with the sound of water from a source close. Stresses the chapel of San Roque for his belfry and the scarlet color that has given her home built in brick. His style, neomudéjar, the dating of its construction, the sixteenth century. 
In the maze Although we follow the clues in the form of sockets and have our best route is being proposed on the site we must confess that we lose ourselves again and again . From the chapel we climbed Fe Street and from this moment, the streets intersecting one another, are lost, disappear and reappear. We note the patios and flower pots, covered with trellises, windows de algunas casas pintadas de colores azules turquesa o verdes botella. Flores y más flores, bugan
villas que descienden desde las terrazas hasta tocar el suelo y muchas casas con sus nombre propios, algunos de ellos de resonancias nórdicas y anglosajonas. Resulta una delicia perderse, saludar a los torroxeños, contemplar a un grupo de niños jugando al escondite entre los antiguos adarves. Y aunque diría que anduvimos por la calle Fe, por la calle Alegría, por la calle Espada o calle Calvario, mentiríamos, porque hace un gran rato que no vemos ninguna de las indicaciones de la Ruta de Almanzor. Vemos los retruécanos de escaleras que conducen a viviendas individuales, insólitas tickets to some houses almost learned from Tolkien's imagination. We arrived at a known location, the street Kiss. We focus. Food
We bought a couple of postcards (three, in particular) in a grocery store attached to the square of the Constitution. The girl has not responded, charming, has recommended the Torrox to eat BBQ. Do not hesitate. We have seen the trip takes us way back to the car. It is a simple restaurant. We ordered a full salad, a swordfish with Malaga wine, a serving of tripe with chickpeas, two-liter bottles of water and half cold weather. From windows are the sea and coastline. They sting a little callus, which gives them a strong and delicious flavor. Torrox Costa
We reached the car and drove after passing under the motorway to Torrox Costa. When you reach a roundabout take the direction to the left and parked almost seamless front of the lighthouse. Torrox experienced an unprecedented growth of tourism in the seventies. Aesthetically similar to the nearby Algarrobo and many foreign residents who have chosen this place to live. Torrox looks to the Mediterranean and as a coastal town, one of its main attractions are its beaches 
, 9 km from coast divided into seven beaches: Calaceite, Ashtray, The Morche, The Peñoncillo, Ferrara, Mazagarrobo and Vilches. Dark sand beaches that have won awards year after year with the Blue Flag that credited as some of the best in Europe for the quality of its waters and the provision of services and access. We see neighbors, visitors stroll caressed by the breeze in Ferrara ride. The blue sea, a little rough this morning, making eddies play crashing against the shore. At the beginning of Ferrara Walk is a large veranda and under it one of the first archaeological excavations in the area, a number of graves that could be part of the "Villa a Mare" the lighthouse, Roman maritime villa. From this vantage point provides much of the Axarquía coast, westward and eastward. The wind sneaks 
between the straps that hold the platform, hoots. Next to the gazebo is the Torrox lighthouse and a good story. "At the site have been found a villa, a salted fish which was made famous garum, a bath, an oven and an extensive necropolis. The discovery of these ruins is due to Tomás García Ruiz, Torrox Lighthouse keeper, at the beginning of the twentieth century, made an excavation that uncovered most of the archaeological remains that are now considered by experts 
: mosaics, sculptures, vases, urns, coins, etc.. La Villa del Faro de Torrox has been identified as one of the few examples of "Villa a Mare" or "Villa Maritime" in Spain. Among the Roman ruins stands the Torrox Lighthouse, which dates from 1864 and began to release white flashes using olive oil lamps. In the early twentieth century the system was implanted oil lamps, and in 1922 was electrified, "says the Patron 
ato de Turismo. We rounded the lighthouse and the foam of the waves splashing on our face. No wonder the location of this Roman villa, situated in a privileged place. Several historians say that this town was Caviclum mansions, including the Itinerary of Antoninus. It is estimated that could be built between I and IV. We walk, we walk, we walk in the warm sun in the afternoon the ride of Ferrara. Farewell We are still entangled in the streets to which we have been doomed Fe Street heard echoes of children's voices, women's health was the hum of a small group of cats. Limes are closed on each other, smell flowers sensitive to fragrances of autumn cooking. Perhaps here, walked these streets or played at one time the leader Mansur, and Luis de Torres, who discovered a new continent. We played with the mind and join them both in the same story. Luis de Torres acting as a translator for Mansur to the prior of the cathedral of San Santiago de Compostela. It is historical fiction, but imagine it costs. Discover
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Convent of Our Lady of the Snows: In 1646 the Municipal Cencejo torrox had already asked the friars minimum
create a religious establishment that also educate the neighbors' children. The friars were not installed there until 1670, first as Hospice, and since the early eighteenth century as a convent definitely. Almost certainly, the current building was built in the late eighteenth on the original chapel. Foundation official sealed in the Chapter General of the religious order held in Genoa in 1710, designates him as "Madonna della Neve torroxensis Convent." Information and photo taken from the municipal website. Beacon tower Güi Huit: Data XV century. Watchtower located about 40 meters high, with a tapered shape in concrete and lime mortar, 9m. 22.30 m height and basal circumference. Known part of the coast defense system. Located in the area of \u200b\u200bCalaceite, highway 340 to Nerja, is visible from the road
. Information from the municipal website. Migas Day: celebrates Torrox every year the traditional Feast of Crumbs, declared of National Tourist Interest in Andalusia. The town pays tribute to the most typical dish of the cuisine, inviting all who want to join the celebrations to a plate of crumbs and a good glass of wine. The ingredients and seasonings that developed the crumbs make a perfect dish for farmworkers. When the laborers were in the vineyard and olive grove, and it was time for lunch, the pattern played "the shell" to let them know that the crumbs were prepared and ready to eat. The Sunday before the feast of Christmas Market next to the mill, are prepared and distributed crumbs offered to all residents and visitors who come to Torrox. The touch of the shell indicates that all may go to pick up his plate of migas. A glass of wine and a salad arriera accompany the meal, which takes place in a magnificent atmosphere. Later, the music and dancing continue in the Plaza of the Constitution. Information and photo taken from the municipal website.
Links: We take as reference the website Tourist Board of the Costa del Sol and municipal web page Torrox (very full), in the section Torrox Tourist Board.
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