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Rincon de la Victoria History
Rincón de la Victoria was a fishing town up to twenty
years ago, but it has now become an important centre of both
residential and seasonal tourism.
The municipality covers an area of 30 square kilometres, and
offers something for everybody: lots of hotels, restaurants
and bars, ten kilometres of coastline for water sports or
simply lying in the sun, an excellent golf course and other
sporting facilities.
The found archaeological rest in the Cave of the Treasure
demonstrate that this place was populated from remote times.
Towards the 50 a.C. the Phoenicians were based in the hill
of Benagalbón.
Later, during the Roman period, a fortified population Bezmiliana
was constructed. But it is during the andalusí time
where the city acquires more notoriety and the category of
medina, because in the S. XI Al-Idrisi it speaks to us of
his two mosques, tunny nets, etc. and in the s. XIV Yusuf
I constructs to diverse towers almenaras in the coastal strip.
With the arrival of Kings Catolicos a declivity takes place
that continuous until XVIII century, when Carlos III reconstructs
these towers almenaras and carries out the construction of
Casa-Fuerte de Bezmiliana.
The present name of Rincón de la Victoria comes by
the installation in its earth from the Order of the Minimums
and their convent of the Victory.
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