The Phoenician settlement that exported fish sauce to Athens

El Torreón is a Phoenician-Punic settlement on a headland on the right bank of the mouth of the Guadalmansa river, in the municipality of Estepona. According to the town council, it was founded from the 6th century BC and was dedicated to producing fish salting and sauces — some amphorae were exported as far as Athens — plus farming, livestock and iron and, especially, copper mines at the headwaters of the Guadalmansa itself. The settlement remained inhabited into the early Roman period; according to Andalucia.com, occupation lasted around eight hundred years, until roughly 200 AD. Some academic sources identify it with Salduba, a city named in classical sources, though that identification has been a disputed hypothesis since the late 19th century, not a settled fact. Most of the Municipal Museum's collection from the site came from Luis Soto's 1974 excavation. El Torreón is a different site from the Villa Romana de las Torres, the Roman bath complex declared a Site of Cultural Interest that stands beside the Guadalmansa watchtower, in the same area.