THE ENGLISHMAN

This castle was used later on as general headquarters of the customs officers and at the beginning of the XXth century it was bought by Sir George Langworthy. He transformed it into a property with splendid gardens and miradors over the sea. Most of our grandparents, even our parents, remember this gentleman whom they called “el señorito inglés” (the English gentleman) or “el inglés de la peseta” ( the Englishman of the peseta) because he helped people in need and he attended sick people at their bedside; people queued at the door of his property to say a prayer known as “the treatment” and thus, they got a silver peseta, which meant the daily food for a whole family at the time.

George Langworthy was a philanthropist, as the people of Torremolinos could see day after day, year after year. When he arrived in our country he was immensely rich, but he died as a poor man in 1945, surrounded by his employees and the whole town of Torremolinos who accompanied his simple coffin.
He is built in the English cemetery of Málaga. He has been the only “Honorary and Favourite Citizen of Torremolinos”, honor that was given to him by the town hall in 1918 due to his altruistic task in favour of his fellow citizens. He was considered “ the father of the poor”.

His street “Castillo del Inglés”, opened in 1990, leads us to the Hotel Santa Clara, where there is a monument in his honor.