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An ethnographic-historical museum devoted to the sea and the watchtowers on the coast of Mijas.
The Visitor’s Center is located in the Torre Batería de La Cala or Torreón de la Cala, as it is better known. It consists of three spaces or exhibition halls:
Hall of the Towers
This space features an exhibition on the origin of coastal surveillance in general, and in particular the case of the coast of Mijas, through scale reproductions of the 4 towers still standing in the town, the reproduction of historical texts, and a documentary on the characteristics of this defense system and the towers of Mijas.
Torrijos Hall
This room is a tribute to freedom and the defense of constitutional order, the pretext is the landing of General Torrijos at Charcón Beach and the person is General Torrijos himself.
Original texts and illustrations are used to tell the tale of Torrijos’s landing on the beaches of Mijas and his and his men’s itinerary through the town until they reached the Alquería de Alhaurín de la Torre, where they were captured and later shot without trial on of San Andrés Beach in Malaga.
Traditional Fishing Hall
The fishing past of La Cala is the protagonist of this space, where fishing boats such as the traiña, the jábega, the sardinal, and the flat-bottom boat and other traditional fishing equipment are used to explain the ways of life and other fishing-related aspects in La Cala.