Car Hire Fuengirola Spain

Fuengirola this seaside town is 30 km from Malaga, 28 km, from Marbella. In the 1960s Fuengirola began a new phase, to become an important tourist centre offering all the amenities of a major tourist centre, hotels, restaurants, bars, discotheques, sports clubs.

The Town offers a number of appealing venues such as the Roman baths at Torreblanca, and at the foothills of the mountain range behind the town is the site of the Arab castle, which contains relics of an early Ibero-punic or Phoenician settlement, later occupied by the Romans, which became a town known in ancient times as Suel.

Suel was acknowledged by one more Roman historian, Pomponius Mela, as one of the towns of the coast, and cited by Pliny in the 1st century A.D. as a fortified town. A later historian, Ptolemy, identified it during the 2nd century A.D. as being located in the region of the bastulo-penos or Phoenicians. Even though in Fuengirola no official excavations have been made, some precious archaeological finds have emerged in recent years, the most important being the writing on the base of a statue found close to the castle, whose text mentions Suel as being a Roman municipium. An additional find from the same area is a funeral urn, whose writing contains the word Suelitana.