The village of Mijas is one of the richest places in Spain and was, during the 90s one of the few councils in the black. Municipal finance has since moved into the red, but Mijas income remains high, mainly thanks to rates paid by the numerous residential areas on the coast.

Mijas in the old times was founded by the Tarshish, who called it Tamisa. There before in Roman times, it should have been a relatively prosperous town, passing across it one of the branches of the Via Augusta, which connected Cadiz with Málaga.

It was conquered in 714 by Abdalaziz, Governor of Sevilla, and since then until the conquest in 1487, it belonged in sucession to the emirate and to the followers of Omar Ben Hafsun, whose processions were called “Reino de Mijas”.

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