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This seaside town is 30 km from Malaga Spain, 28 km, from Marbella. In the 1960s, it began a new phase, to become an important tourist center offering all the amenities of a major tourist center, hotels, restaurants, bars, discotheque, 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. That was later occupied by the Romans, who became 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 finds from the same area is a funeral urn, whose writing contains the word Suelitana.
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