Bajondillo Cave

Bajondillo Cave is an archaeological site right in the middle of Torremolinos, hidden beneath the resort town in a ravine near Bajondillo beach. It has been excavated since the 1990s and has yielded remains from both Neanderthals and early modern humans, covering a span of over 100,000 years of occupation.

The cave is not routinely open to tourists, but panels near the site explain the discoveries, and the Museo de Historia de Torremolinos in the Casa del Navajas covers the findings in context. It is a reminder that the package-holiday resort is built on one of the more remarkable prehistoric sites on the Iberian coast.

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Excavations at Bajondillo Cave have pushed back the date of modern human presence in southern Iberia to at least 45,000 years ago. More controversially, stone tools found in deep strata suggest Neanderthals and Homo sapiens may have used the cave within a few thousand years of each other — one of the few places in Spain where such near-overlap has been documented.