Leisure and culture in Marbella

Leisure and culture in Marbella

The cultural offer of the city of Marbella is more extensive than we might think at first. Its old town retains many traces of the historical process experienced by the city.

We found remains of the first centuries of Roman rule in the capitals used in the construction of the towers of the medieval fortress of Trinity Street.

But the historical district is simply the sign of Muslim presence, since it found numerous architectural remains, archaeological remains, .... At this time, the population was cerrrada by a wall creating a more or less oval polygon. Starting in the kasbah, and following clockwise, we can continue this perimeter along the streets Art, Wall, Alameda, Fortaleza, Huerta Chica, Isaac Peral and Solano.

Some remains of the wall jut behind the house on the street Isaac Peral.

The layout of the city was embodied in Muslim neighborhoods and roads linking with each other and with the various gates of the city. As the center of it, the mosque site now occupied by the Church of the Incarnation was.

Important role played by the time the Puerta del Mar, and connecting the mosque and the citadel; that is, it was the place for which the city had access to people and products that landed on the coast, giving the area an eminently commercial. This sector coincides today with the streets of San Juan de Dios, Gloria, Misericordia and Carmen, where they are still concentrated commercial activity.

The remains of the Moorish castle, designed by the tenth century, built by Aberramán III, show how the Roman remains of some nearby building materials used in its construction. After the reconquest were made appropriate reforms to suit the artillery guns.

As to the Plaza de las Naranjos, its urban origins date back to the Middle Ages, when it was a market square. After the conquest it became square, due to the construction of the town hall. Thus it became the center of political and economic power of the city, as evidenced by the fact that in the same prison and the granary was also built. Also, on the site occupied by the old mosque in the XVI century Church of the Incarnation it was built.

Should visit the Convent of the Trinitarios Calzados, which takes its delimited by the Church Square and the streets Trinidad, Wind and Salinas place. This building, dating from the XVI century, has lost dimension than the original, retaining only one of the cloisters and the Chapel of Santa Catalina.

Another landmark building is the Royal Hospital of Mercy, although at present it is very reformed from the original. Its construction was carried out in the first half of the sixteenth century. And, the Bazan Hospital, the Museum of Spanish Engraving, built between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.