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Torrox

Torrox is a municipality and locality of Spain, in the province of Malaga, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located on the Costa del Sol Oriental, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and at the foot of the Sierra de Almijara. It is the head of the judicial party that bears his name and one of the municipalities that make up the region of the Axarquía and the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Costa del Sol-Axarquía.
Its municipal area has an area of 51 km² that extend through the valley of the homonymous river, and a population of 16,395 inhabitants, according to the census of the INE of 2008. This is distributed in two differentiated nuclei; the old core of Torrox, located in the interior, and Torrox Costa, located on the coast, where most of the population is located. It is worth mentioning that it houses one of the largest colonies of German residents in Spain.
Due to its beaches and tourist infrastructure it is a busy place during the summer months. Agricultural land is highly productive thanks to the subtropical microclimate of the area, which allows the cultivation of tropical fruits such as avocado, custard apple, mango or loquat, which add to the production of vegetables and ornamental plants under plastic.
It is believed that the origins of Torrox are in a Roman city-factory probably called Caviclum. The Arabs promoted the planting of the mulberry trees, making Torrox a center of the silk industry, which met the demand of the markets of Malaga and Granada, where it was much appreciated. After the Castilian conquest he suffered the consequences of the Moorish rebellion, their expulsion and the following repopulations.
The limits of the locality are:

West: Vélez-Málaga
East: Nerja
North: Competa
South: Mediterranean Sea Foxx is accessible through the Mediterranean Highway.

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Convent of Our Lady of the Snows

The convent of Our Lady of the Snows is located on Almedina Street, no. 61 of Torrox (Province of Malaga, Spain). Its historical value is set from the conquest of the Axarquía in Malaga that ends in 1487 with the capture of Vélez-Málaga. In this way, the arrival of the order of the Minimum of San Francisco de Paula to Torrox takes place in the 16th century with the foundation on the outskirts of the town, first of the hermitage and then of the convent under the invocation of Our Lady. of the snows. This allows to synthesize the presence of this property in a wide chronological arc, which extends from the 16th century to the present.
The convent, although it has a large part of its rooms lost due to the various uses, is a building that highlights the church and the cloister that, despite the changes, has not lost the original trace and retains the decorative simplicity of the arches and pillars of the beginnings of the baroque style.
The church presents elements of two main construction phases according to the Mudejar and Baroque styles. To the first corresponds the Latin cross plant, according to the Mudejar style of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the deck of its only nave, an elegant and beautiful trough armor with lime-bordon, rectangular almizate and trapezoidal skirts and the cover of the presbytery of characteristics similar to that of the ship. In the second phase, the construction of the Shrine of the Virgin of the Snows and the two surrounding rooms that surround the head of the temple, according to the baroque style of the 18th century.

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Laguna Beach Vistas al Mar Torrox Canovas

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