Tolox
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Tolox is a town and municipality in the
gall oak
. The municipality covers 94 km2, has a mean elevation of 285 m. and mean geographical coordinates of 36° 41' 11" N, 4° 54' 16" E. The channel of the Rio Grande flows through the town from northeast to south.
Village
The village of Tolox has winding streets, with white-washed houses and doors and window boxes overflowing with flowers in season.
History
While the area was inhabited in Paleolithic times, the village of Tolox bears a
Abd-ar-Rahman III
.
After the fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Tolox came under the Kingdom of
Córdoba, and as far away as Galicia
.
In the
Napoleonic troops. Later soldiers from Cártama and Tolox under the command of General Francisco Ballesteros
conducted guerrilla warfare out of the mountains against the French.
Attractions
Aside from the mountain vistas and hiking that Tolox offers, it has a spa, the "Fuente Amargosa", which is visited for respiratory and allergic afflictions.
References
- Wawn, Christopher; Wood, David (1999) In Search of Andalucia: A Historical Geographic Observation of the Malaga Seaboard. Pentland Press: Durham, Edinburgh, Cambridge. ISBN 1-85821-690-7
- Ruiz, Virgilio (2000) Vivencias de Tolox Ayuntamiento de Tolox: Tolox.
- González, Diego Ceano (1993) Tolox : un oasis en la sierra Málaga : Mar y Luz.
- Jiménez, José Sánchez (1976) Vida rural y mundo contemporáneo : análisis sociohistórico de un pueblo del sur Barcelona : Planeta. ISBN 84-320-7816-6
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tolox.
- Tolox statistics from the Multiterritorial Information System of Andalusia
- Economic Study of Spain - Tolox
- Official homepage of Tolox
- Sierra de las Nieves - Tolox
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