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Mollina – History and Traditions

The municipality of Mollina is well known for its grain fields and olive groves, and also for several decades now its vineyards have produced vintages of such acknowledged quality that they have earned the designation “Denominación de Origen” and provided a powerful economic impetus to the area.

The origins of the modern village date back to the sixteenth century, when in 1575 the Village Council of Antequera distributed the lands of the so-called Cortijo de la Ciudad (Farm of the City). Its urban plan, modified in the seventeenth century, can still be seen in the Plaza de la Constitución. The village developed at such an economic and demographic pace that in less than a century Mollina became the area with the largest number of olive trees in the Antequera region, and for a period this territory was even called “Pago de las Olivas” (the plot where olives grow), and what had been the San Cayetano parish church changed its name to Nuestra Señora de la Oliva (Our Lady of the Olive).

The locality became independent of Antequera in the first years of the nineteenth century, at a time of social unrest caused by the massive participation by residents of Mollina in a secret society called the Garibaldinos. The “Loja Revolution” of 1861 had began in Mollina, where there were a number of people killed or wounded.

In the second half of the twentieth century Mollina, like so many other villages in the province, suffered the consequences of emigration The population went from slightly more than 5,000 in the census of 1956 to 2,800 two decades later. Now however, the population is on the increase again, with many northern Europeans deciding to make Mollina their Spanish home.

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