Lorca Spain, known as the city of 100 Coat of Arms, is where the Moors and the Visigoths battled for control of the land; initially they both controlled the land up to the border on the north including the city of Larcia while in later years, the Christians and the Moors controlled the city and the land up to the southern border.
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Lorca Spain served as a base for launching raids into enemy territory.
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Lorca Spain truly became a modern city, losing its medieval character.
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Trade declined during the first half of the century, although in 1865 it received its first steam engine, the Sewer-Lorca Spain railway opened in 1885 and the Baza-Lorca Spain railway opened in 1890, bringing integration of the region in the domestic market, enabling the movement of mineral deposits and people.
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The twentieth century in Lorca Spain has been a technological take-off, with slow and gradual change of social structures, the specialization of the productive sectors, etc.
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Municipality of Lorca Spain is bound by Caravaca de la Cruz and Cehegin to the north, Mula, Aledo, Totana and Mazarron to the east, Aguilas to the south and Pulpi, Puerto Lumbreras, Huercal-Overa, Velez Rubio and Velez Blanco to the east.
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The town of Lorca Spain itself is located 58 kilometres southwest of the city of Murcia and roughly 40 kilometres north of the coastal town of Aguilas.
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Lorca Spain is connected to Puerto Lumbreras in the southwest by European Route 15 and the village of Barranco del Prado just to the north.
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Lorca Spain formed around the Guadalentin River in an arid valley.
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Archaeological Museum of Lorca Spain is located in the renovated "House of Salazar" which had been built in the early seventeenth century.
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Lorca Spain is studded with ancient monuments built in baroque architecture, Roman villas, palaces, unique works of art.
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Lorca Spain has launched a programme to boost its economy by attracting local, national and international industrial houses to set up base in the city and its precincts by identifying land for allotment to set up industrial parks, Research and Development projects.
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