Costa del Sol Towns

Monuments & Places of Interest

Monuments

The San Luis Castle is located in a quiet part of town. These ruins are the remains of the castle built by order of the Catholic Kings in order to strengthen the walls of the villa and to facilitate their recruitment.

The tower of the destroyed church of the fortress, the “Clock Tower,” of the 15th century. The origin of the Tower is Arab, during which it was probably used as a minaret.

After the town was taken over by Castilians, the mosque became a Church, and the tower became known as the bell tower. In the 18th century a dome was added in a neoclassical style and decorated with garland, scrolls, and bucrania.

The Church Sta. Maria de los Remedios was as a convent for the Franciscan Order of the Tertiary. In 1835 it was abandoned by the friars. The front of the building is Rococo style, with other features that appear to come from the architecture of colonial Hispanic America.

The watch tower was built between the 15th and 16th centuries.

Opened in 1972, the bullring is unique for its asymmetrical floor.

The House of the Marquis was recently rebuilt.

Crenellated towers. They are Muslim and Castilian and a testimony of a defense system that lasted until the 19th century.

After the Spanish conquest and defense of the looting of the pirates, Christians put in place a missile defense system based on a series of towers from which they were smoke signals by day and illuminated at night to quickly warn of enemy landings. Scattered along its 21 km coastline are seven tower beacons.

Castillejos—At the top of a very steep hill, near the park, “the rocks,” are the remains of a prehistoric fortification of origin, rebuilt by the Muslims.

Castle Nicio—Ruins of a fortress from the ninth century, with preserved walls and several of the towers. It was very important during the rebellion against Omar ben Hatsun amirs Cordoban.

The museum’s exhibition space is divided into several theme rooms, which provide visitors the information sorted according to a basic criterion: the functionality of tools.

Room Thumbnail: with scale reproductions made, hand tools, farm implements, and a collection of tools and knives.

Hall of field that includes information and tools following a functional approach in different sections: home, beekeeping, sowing, reaping, threshing, grain storage, livestock, and forging factory soda.

 

Monuments and places of interest

Town Clock Tower

Church St. Maria de los Remedios

Antonia Guerrero Place (aka Egg Place)

Flower Place

Central Market

City Council

The Peseta

St. Louis Castle

Gibraltar seen from Estepona Port

Museums

Municipal Archaeological Museum. The oldest remains date back to the Paleolithic period, some 100,000 years ago, and consist of a number of stone carvings.

There is evidence of Neolithic and Copper Age and the Bronze Age, such as ceramics, stone tools, and polished stone axes among the materials from the Phoenician era, from the site called “The Tower,” where some 2600 years ago, the Phoenicians settled. Excavations have uncovered remains of several houses, stores, dishes, urns, etc.

Among the most important discovery in “The Tower” are various ceramics, coins, jewelry, and, most importantly, a Phoenician terra-cotta God Bes.

Seafood Room: You’ll find handmade miniature boats, fishing gear, a boat equipped with gear panels, hubs, etc.

Chamber Transmediterranea exhibits three models of passenger ships, a blog, a bridge, and several tables.

The largest Roman settlement is the Roman Villa “Las Torres,” where several traces that could belong to a Roman city called Salduba were found. Excavations have uncovered rooms with floor mosaics, the remains of columns, and marble statues.

There are also remains from the Muslim era, such as those found in the Castle Nicio, where pottery and coins have emerged from the 9h, 10th, and 11th centuries.

But the most Muslim remains are in “Estebbuna City,” the Arabic Estepona, where several vessels and remains of its walls, public buildings, and a cemetery were found.

It has a major exhibition of more than 2000 objects of ethnographic interest. Its main purpose is to show and spread the life of the inhabitants of the district of  Estepona in the last centuries.