Alora

Alora is a municipality in southern Spain that is part of the province of Malaga Andalusia. Located 40 km from Malaga, at the proper bank of the river Guadalhorce and on the Cordoba-Malaga high-pace rail line, in the comarca of Valle del Guadalhorce. It is an average pueblo blanco, a whitewashed village nestled among three rocky spurs topped by using the ruins of the fortress. The municipality covers an area of 169 km2 that covers a huge territory in which the big landforms of Malaga are located.

The hills are occupied by means of cereal, olive and okaytrees and orchards of fruit and greens that cowl the valley ground. Its populace is 13,436 population, in keeping with the INE census of 2008. Alora's records dates back to prehistoric instances inside the Hoyo del Conde, a touch over a kilometer from the city. The ecological surroundings hunting, water, herbal protection desired this presence till the Turdetanis of Tartessos and the Phoenicians discovered the industrial ability of the region.

The latter constructed the rules of the fortress, which the Romans might take advantage of by using fortifying it. The location became settled considering prehistorical instances, and become exploited for its commercial position by using Tartessos and by using the Phoenicians, who maximum likely constructed the castle. The Romans, after their conquest of Spain, restored the fort and had right here a municipium referred to as Iluritanum, as attested through an inscription dating.