🏛️ Historical Heritage
⛪ Church of La Encarnación
An 18th-century church of cathedral proportions in Marbella's old town, with a beautiful Rococo stone doorway and a restored Baroque organ.
Church / Cathedral🏯 Corregidor's House
A 16th-century building on Marbella's Plaza de los Naranjos, with a Gothic-Mudéjar stone façade and Renaissance gallery, historic seat of municipal authority.
Palace or civil architecture🏛️ Río Verde Roman Villa
A 1st-century seaside villa in Marbella famous for its black and white mosaics depicting kitchen utensils, an iconographic motif unique in the Roman world.
Archaeological Site⛪ Vega del Mar Early Christian Basilica
In San Pedro Alcántara, ruins of a 4th-century basilica with its immersion baptismal font and a necropolis, one of the best preserved early Christian churches in Spain.
Church / Cathedral🌿 Nature
🏖️ Cabopino and Artola Beach
A lovely stretch of coast surrounded by the protected Artola Dunes and a small marina, with both family and naturist areas.
Beach🏖️ Fuengirola Castle Beach
At the foot of the imposing Sohail Castle, a wide fine-sand beach that also has a designated area where dogs are allowed.
Beach🏖️ Real de Zaragoza Beach
One of the quietest and largest beaches in Marbella, with very fine golden sand and shallow waters, perfect for relaxed, safe swimming.
Beach🎭 Culture
🔍 Carromato de Max Miniature Museum
In Mijas, a collection unique worldwide: dressed dissected fleas, canvases painted on grains of rice and other microscopic curiosities.
Museum🕯️ Guaro Moorish Moon Festival
The village of Guaro is lit solely by more than 25,000 candles to celebrate its Al-Andalus past, with Sephardic and Arabic music and a large craft souk.
Fair or Festival🎭 Marbella City Theatre
Marbella's main performance venue, with a varied national programme ranging from contemporary comedy to international dance and jazz festivals.
Theatre⭐ Marbella Starlite Festival
A boutique music festival held all summer long in a spectacular open-air natural quarry, attracting international stars.
Fair or Festival🐂 Mijas Bullring
One of the most photogenic and visited for its unusual oval shape and white façade, set in the heart of the white village of Mijas.
Bullring🎤 Ojeando Festival
A benchmark of Spanish pop and indie that spreads its stages across the squares, streets and corners of Ojén, a white village of the Sierra de las Nieves near Marbella.
Fair or Festival🏄 Sports Activities
⛳ Aloha Golf Club
A Javier Arana design in Nueva Andalucía, one of the most prestigious courses in the Golf Valley, with narrow fairways among orange trees and La Concha behind.
Golf course Hard🧗 Climbing at Ojén and Sierra Blanca
Peridotite sectors above Marbella, an unusual dark and rough rock, with short routes and Mediterranean views from the wall itself.
Climbing Easy🚴 Costa del Sol Coastal Path
A seafront boardwalk and cycle lane linking the coastal towns, flat and accessible, ideal for families and sunset rides.
Cycling route Easy🤿 Diving at Marbella and Cabopino
Accessible Costa del Sol dive sites with wrecks sunk as artificial reefs, shoals of sea bream and mild water almost all year.
Diving Easy⛳ La Quinta Golf & Country Club
Twenty-seven holes in Benahavís designed with Manuel Piñero, set on the hillsides with marked gradients and Mediterranean views.
Golf course Moderate⛳ Los Naranjos Golf Club
A Robert Trent Jones course among old orange groves, with two very different nines: the first rolling and wooded, the second open and links in style.
Golf course Moderate⛳ Marbella Club Golf Resort
A Dave Thomas course in the Benahavís hills at 400 metres, with simultaneous views of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar and the African coast.
Golf course Hard🏄 Paddleboarding at Marbella
A sheltered coast with calm sea most of the year, ideal for paddleboarding and kayaking from the Cabopino and Artola beaches.
Surf and kitesurf Easy⛳ Real Club de Golf Las Brisas
A Robert Trent Jones design in Nueva Andalucía, with water in play on twelve holes. It has hosted two World Cups and several Spanish Opens.
Golf course Hard🥾 Sierra de Mijas Trails
A network of routes through a white marble massif right behind the Costa del Sol, with abandoned quarries and views of both the Mediterranean and Africa.
Hiking trail ModerateMarbella on the map
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