Alhaurin el Grande is located in Malaga Region , Andalucia

Alhaurin el Grande is one of the towns of Malaga Province, in Andalucía region. The origin of the name was given by the Arabs, who called it "Alhaurín", where the Catholic Monarchs added "el Grande" to distinguish it from the neighbouring town of Alhaurín de la Torre after the conquest of both sites in 1485.

Traces of different civilizations have been found, from the oldest to abundant Roman and Moorish remains. The municipality of Alhaurín el Grande has seen the history of Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans,Visigoths and Arabs that have settled nearby.

In the forested areas southeast of Alhaurín el Grande, there are traces of Neolithic occupation, witness to the long history of human habitation of the area.

The agricultural growth of the place took a big leap in quality with the arrival of the Greeks, who left their methods of cultivating the land, olive trees and the pruning of grafted vines.

By the time the Romans arrived, the tiny Iberian settlement in the Sierra de Mijas was already well established, but it had a name the Romans chose not to keep, instead they gave it one of their own, the village became Lauro Nova. It was a spot apparently blessed by the gods: fertile, temperate, and surrounded by hills riddled with valuable mineral deposits. Roman villas popped up around the centre of the village and the hills are still dotted with their remains. There is also evidence of the existence of different settlements in various parts of the place names of Alhaurín el Grande, such as: Dehesa Baja Camino de Coín o la Alquería during the Roman period. The most important are those beig that of the Fuente del Sol and Huerta del Niño, named after a burial with a tombstone of a young Roman having been discovered. Numerous Roman remains and objects such as columns, ceramics and coins have been found.