Built as a country house in 1704 by D. Tomás Francisco Domínguez Godoy, the rooms suitable for the installation of a sugar mill and an animal-powered oil mill were soon set up there.
As the residence of its owners and a sugar factory, it functioned until the mid-19th century, when the sugar industry was abandoned and oil mill machinery was introduced.
In 1991 it became municipal property. During its restoration, the remains of a 10th century rock church were discovered, and during the same 5 ovens of the sugar mill were also discovered.
After the rehabilitation, the entire facility has been transformed into the Cortijo Miraflores Cultural Center. Highlights include the Oil Museum (with machinery over 200 years old, restored), the Archaeological Exhibition, which collects a vision of Marbella from the Lower Paleolithic to the Modern Age, the Historical Fund of the Municipal Archive and various Exhibition and Conference Rooms. This complex is surrounded by a nineteenth-century garden, of special botanical interest.
It continually hosts temporary exhibitions of all kinds, conference cycles, screenings, recitals, etc.
Monday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. From Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:30.