Marbella Travel guide

Marbella has become a clean, secure and beautiful town, offering a better quality of life to its visitors and inhabitants. In its constant search for new attractions, Marbella continues to progress, which places Marbella as the International City of Tourism, reclaiming the international acclaim it deserves.

Nobody befere would have ever imagined that Marbella could change the way it did and the way it still does. Thanks to the management of the local council headed by Mayor Gil, which was based on the application of a company model to public administration, with imagination, effort and common sense, Marbella today enjoys the best infrastructure and has converted itself into a place of high interest for investors. Creating in this way richness for the municipality and thousands of jobs for its inhabitants.

Above all, Marbella has a touristic vocation and that of a modern town in continuous progress. The fact that a lot of the designed projects improve the range of facilities and spare time activities only strengthens the reality of Marbella, which year after year, has become the prefered destination of hundreds of thousands of tourists.

The character of the people of Marbella, cordial and welcoming also helps to make nobody feel like a stranger in our cosmopolitan town.

On the following pages we will show you some typical aspects and particular sites of Marbella, but if you do have a specific request or would like to consult us for whatever reason, you can always contact the local tourist office.

It is a great pleasure to walk along its narrow and singularly laid out streets and wanders around its historical heritage.

Public and private entities continuously organise painting and sculpture exhibitions, concerts, theatre shows, recitals, and art auctions.... Attention should be directed to Easter processions, the Carnivals, Trade exhibitions and the Feasts of the Patron Saint Bernabé, commemorating the conquest of the city

The city of Marbella holds throughout the whole year many social, sports and cultural events and is the host of important congresses and conventions. In one single day they often have golf tournaments, concerts, expositions, conventions and social parties.

In Marbella outstanding golf, tennis and football tournaments take place and it offers a varied and extensive cultural program of concerts, conferences, expositions and theatre, that shares an important place with the numerous congresses and conventions of different economic, social and cultural sectors.

During the summer, festivals follow one another, charity festivals, beauty contests and fashion shows among other activities. In a particular way, many parties are organised in discotheques (some of them unique in the world), hotels and yachts that bring together people belonginf to the international jet set.