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The engraving museun

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Its construction began in the 10th century. The castle-alcazaba was located in the most elevated area. It was the first urban area of the city.
María José Ormeño.

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The materials used for its construction were stony materials, some recycled from Roman times; for example, the capitels used in the 'Pólvora tower'.
Pilar España.

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The fortress is the most important Arabic vestige of the city. At present, the fortified area is delimited by the next streets: Arte, Solano, Trinidad, Portada, Salinas, Carmen, Ortiz del Molinillo and Virgen de los Dolores.

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The Town Hall

On its façade, on the right corner, we can see a sundial, shields and some commemorative tombstones with inscriptions in old Castilian

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Casa del Corregidor

In the middle ages the Corregidor was the most important person in the city, he represented the Kings.

Carmen Téllez

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The Engraving Museum

According to legend, a little futher along in the same street, there used to be a monastery where the monks used to allow the prisioners in on their way to and from prison, and one day one of the monks substituted himself for one of the prisioners, his name was Miguel de Cervantes.

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It´s located on the Orange Trees square in the old town of Marbella.
Germán

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The Town Hall is located in the heart of the old town, and is one of the most important buildings in the city. It was built in 1568.
Germán

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This building was the residential palace of the Mayor, Mr Alonso of Bazán who donated it to the town to serve as a hospital for the poor. It is a fine example of a 16th century renaissance building.
Germán

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The Santiago Chapel is situaded in The Orange Tree Square. During Spanish civil war its interior was destroyed and rebuilt, for that reason  not much of the original is kept.

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The Santiago Chapel is situaded in The Orange Tree Square. During Spanish civil war its interior was destroyed and rebuilt, for that reason  not much of the original is kept.

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Carlos V built it in 1554. El Fuerte De San Luis is next to the beach, inside the grounds of a hotel in Marbella, El Fuerte hotel. It's a private property now.  El Fuerte de San Luis was used as barracks by the French. It had battery for six guns.

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It's of renaissance  style, but very poorly restored  during the second part of the century .It changed  and now it looks like an Andalusian style building with white-washed walls.

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At the end of the calle Viento, which is a narrow street with white-washed houses, we find the Hospital de Bazán which was founded in 1.568 by Don Alfonso Bazán (the mayor of Marbella at that time).

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El Fuerte de San Luis played an important role during the Napoleónic invasion.

In August 1812, It was used as a powder store and in an attack by the guerrillas from the Ronda mountains, El Fuerte blew up.

For this reason, today just half of the fortification remains surrounded by the gardens of the current hotel which preserves not only Its remains but also Its name.

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Tjhis church was founded by the Catholics Kings. The most of the building is from the first decades of the 18 th century. During the Civil War its structure was completely damaged. It was renovated in 1940.

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In a corner of The Orange Trees Square, there's a small and nice church which is the oldest Christian parish church in Marbella:  'Santiago Hermitage'.

In 1505 the archbishop of Seville denominated it a parish church, but in  the 17th century  it acquired the category of hermitage.

This historic church has only one nave and a rectangular floor, and  in the outside we can see a gable roof and a small belfry which is worthy of note.

At Christmas, the hermitage holds a beautiful Nativity Scene. All the families go there with their children  to see it . After that , they  have some "churros" and hot chocolate next to the hermitage.
What a  lovely tradition!

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This is  the most important element of the Alcazaba, the ramp of the entrance to the citadel.
There used to be an arch which was unfortunately demolished in 1850.
This street is between St.Bernabe square (Encarnacion church) and The Orange trees square

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It's located in the old town of Marbella. We can find here the Church of Ntra. Señora de la Encarnación, which was built in 1485 by The Catholic Kings. It was built over a mosque.
We can also see part of the fortress wall which was built by the Arabs using stones from an ancient Roman temple. They were good recyclers!

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The Alcazaba was inside the castle. The floor is of rectangular shape. Nowadays, there are two Primary schools and many houses next to wall.

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A tour of Marbella's old town