Mijas

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Mijas Costa was declared a Community Interest Area (CIA) in 2006 for its valuable marine ecosystem.

Scientists have found 170 different species of molluscs along its shoreline, close to where the Mediterranean meets the Gibraltar Strait, a rich ocean habitat.

led a revolt against King Ferdinand VII’s regime in 1831 as well as the history of other coastal watchtowers, and the traditional fishing customs of the Mijas Costa. It was only four decades ago that the village consisted of little more than the watchtower and half a dozen fisherman’s cottages. Even up to the 1970s, almost all transport was by donkey and back in the late

1950s most of the land in the area was split between two big families, the German Berne family and the wealthy Cotrinas, from Malaga. Their land stretched all the way to Fuengirola and inland to the pueblo.

“It was beautiful back then, the land was so unspoilt and the fields were full of life. We had an incredible time growing up here,” a former gardener for the Berne’s told me.

“If you had a little bit of land you could live very well, but if you lived in the town of Fuengirola with no land, you would be pretty poor,” he explains.