a work highly valued in its time, and recently re-published by the Spanish Ministry of Defence. San Pedro Alcántara Gutiérrez de la Concha was married to Francisca de Paula Tovar y Gasca, marchioness of Revilla, of Aguilares and of Castro de Torres, countess of Cancelada and of Lences, who had a substantial holding of farms and country estates. On one of these, on the outskirts of Málaga, the marquis improved the yield of the cane sugar crop, and this may have encouraged him to start new agricultural enterprises based on cane sugar. For this purpose he began to acquire land holdings on the western coast of the Province of Málaga at the end of the 1850s. Making use of legal provisions enacted in 1855, 1866 and 1868 to promote rural development, he set up an agricultural settlement at San Pedro Alcántara; this was the origin of the present-day village. The settlement was a large estate of approximately 5,000 ha, including land around Marbella, Benahavís and Estepona, where he introduced the latest agricultural techniques and machinery, in addition to a training farm and an up-to-date sugar processing plant. References Further reading Enciclopedia de Historia de España, vol IV (Diccionario biográfico). (1991). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 910 pp. External links Biography of the Marqués del Duero, on the Marbella website. Biography of the Marqués del Duero, Casino de Madrid ROSAVERDE History of the village of San Pedro Alcántara Works by Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha Military personnel of the First Carlist War Spanish captain generals Spanish generals Moderate Party (Spain) politicians 19th-century Spanish politicians Marquesses of Spain People from Córdoba, Argentina 1808 births 1874 deaths Politicians from Córdoba, Argentina Presidents of the Senate of Spain Spanish military personnel of the Third Carlist War (Governmental faction)