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 Kingsin order to strengthen the walls of the villa and to facilitate theirrecruitment.

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

After the town was taken over by Castilians, the mosquebecame a Church, and the tower became known as the bell tower. In the 18thcentury 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 forthe 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 tocome from the architecture of colonial Hispanic America.

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

Opened in 1972, the bullring is unique for its asymmetricalfloor.

The House of the Marquis was recently rebuilt.

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

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

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

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

The museum’s exhibition space is divided into several themerooms, which provide visitors the information sorted according to a basiccriterion: 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 followinga functional approach in different sections: home, beekeeping, sowing, reaping,threshing, grain storage, livestock, and forging factory soda.

Monuments and placesof 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 dateback to the Paleolithic period, some 100,000 years ago, and consist of a numberof stone carvings.

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

Among the most important discovery in “The Tower” arevarious ceramics, coins, jewelry, and, most importantly, a Phoenicianterra-cotta God Bes.

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

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

The largest Roman settlement is the Roman Villa “LasTorres,” where several traces that could belong to a Roman city called Saldubawere found. Excavations have uncovered rooms with floor mosaics, the remains ofcolumns, and marble statues.

There are also remains from the Muslim era, such as thosefound 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, publicbuildings, and a cemetery were found.

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