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Los Molinillos Archaeological Site
This site, with archaeological remains from Roman times, is located on the seafront.
Important industrial activities took place there from the 1st century AD until at least the beginning of the 5th century AD. Initially this area was devoted to the production of oil (I-III centuries A.D.) and later on, to the production of salted fish (3rd to 5th centuries A.D.).
Oil production played an important role in the town of Benalmádena Costa, from which the product was possibly exported in large quantities to the port of Malacca to be distributed throughout the Mediterranean or even to start export routes from the Torremuelle inlet, Benalmádena's only trade route.
In the eastern part of the site there is an oval-shaped kiln dated to the 3rd to 5th centuries A.D., used in the production of amphorae for salted fish and wine, as well as ceramic cooking pots.
An archaeological intervention was carried out in 2005 just 50 meters away, under the N-340 road. It revealed a residential complex related to the olive oil factory, including a fontana, the hypocaustum of a baths and a room paved with opus tessellatum.
Parallel to the readying of this site, work has also begun on the construction of a Visitor’s Center for the History of Benalmádena on the same site, so that this space, which will soon be open to visitors.