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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 the province of Málaga in the autonomous region of Andalusia 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. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Sin_escudo. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is a list of municipalities in the province of MÃ¡laga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. ... MÃ¡laga province The Province of MÃ¡laga (Spanish Provincia de MÃ¡laga) is located on the southern coast of Spain, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. ... A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 kmÂ² and 10,000 kmÂ². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (â‰ˆ1,609 m) in length. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Though DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... Time zones of Europe: Pale colours indicate countries without daylight saving Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... Tourists on OÊ»ahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... The Costa del Sol is a region which comprises the coastal towns and communities in the MÃ¡laga province, along the Mediterranean coastline. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Location of MÃ¡laga Municipality MÃ¡laga - Mayor Francisco de la Torre Prados Area - City 385. ... MÃ¡laga province The Province of MÃ¡laga (Spanish Provincia de MÃ¡laga) is located on the southern coast of Spain, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. ... Motto: AndalucÃa por sÃ, para EspaÃ±a y la humanidad (Andalusia by herself, for Spain, and for humankind) Capital Seville Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87,268 kmÂ² 17. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... The Costa del Sol is a region which comprises the coastal towns and communities in the MÃ¡laga province, along the Mediterranean coastline. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Torremolinos had its heyday during the eighties and into the nineties, but over the last five years there has been a noticeable shortening of the 'high' season, and a change in the demographic structure of visitors. It continues to have a thriving indigenous gay population, which it continues to attract. It also attracts families, but the young fun-loving 18-30 visitors are being replaced by an older crowd of 'snowbirds' - pensioners travelling overseas, over winter for the sunshine. Nowadays, with no straight nightclubs open in Torremolinos, younger tourists are simply moving further down the coast to Fuengirola and Marbella. Location of Fuengirola Municipality MÃ¡laga Government - Mayor Esperanza OÃ±a Area - City 10. ... Location of Marbella Municipality MÃ¡laga Government - Mayor Without Mayor Area - City 114. ...

Torremolinos in popular culture

The Belgian band Sttellla wrote a song about Torremolinos (simply called "Torremolinos"), which is their biggest hit to date.
The synthesizer duo Soft Cell mentioned Torremolinos in their first, relatively minor club hit, "Memorabilia".
Torremolinos is one of the settings in the novel The Drifters by James A. Michener.
Torremolinos received a brief mention in the Monty Python sketch "Travel Agent / Watney's Red Barrell" as featured in episode 31 of the Flying Circus TV show.

Sttellla is a Belgian band named after Stella Artois Beer. ... Soft Cell was an English synthesizer duo during the early 1980s (currently re-formed). ... The Drifters is the name of a novel by author James A. Michener. ... James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. ... Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Pythonâ€™s Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ...

External links

Kiss nightbar, the only straight bar in the village!
Torremolinos official webpage
Torremolinos Bar and Pub Directory

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Coordinates: 36°37′N, 4°30′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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Torremolinos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (159 words)
	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 the province of Málaga in the autonomous region of Andalusia 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.
	Torremolinos is one of the settings in the novel The Drifters by James A. Michener.

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