Qué ver en Marbella

A quite long and narrow park, just east of the old town. The park was constructed in the 1980's on a former riverbed, and a road bridge goes across it. The park also features a Bonsai Museum, reportedly one of the largest in Europe.

The square lined by the city hall, orange trees, restaurants and bars is the lively heart of the old town. Built after the Christian reconquest of the city, it is an example of renaissance architecture

A nice little park in the middle of the city with a beautiful benches and a fountain decorated with painted tiles. Buy an ice cream, sit down and watch locals and tourists.

From the park, the pedestrian street Avenida del Mar leads down to the Mediterranean. Along it you can see ten statues by the famous Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Actually built in 1994 on the site of a former hospital. The throne inside it depicting Christ is much older and is carried around Marbella on Good Friday.

A former mosque, this building next to the main square is nowadays a small church — the oldest one in Marbella.

Part of a former fortress, these are in a quite good shape for having been standing there for centuries.

The beach promenade, 6km in length with palm trees, restaurants, bars and of course the Mediterranean.

A 16th century chapel that also has functioned as hospital and a home for foundlings.

Interested in contemporary Spanish art? Then this museum is something for you.

A statue of Holy Mary looking out from a window over the eponymous alley.

Marbella's baroque cathedral, from 1618 and colorful on the inside.