Culture & heritage
Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs and Castilians left their mark in Estepona. The city's museums tell that story with real artefacts, not reproductions.
Temporary painting and sculpture exhibitions in a historic house on Plaza de las Flores. The space hosts work by established and emerging artists, both local and national, with a programme that rotates throughout the year.
An exhibition centre designed by architect Salvador Moreno Peralta, winner of Spain's National Architecture Award. A building open to the Mediterranean that hosts national-level exhibitions with sea views.
The museum occupies the Casa del Aljibe, an 18th-century building built over the remains of an Arab cistern. Its collections span from Prehistory to the medieval period. Temporarily closed for renovation.
Over 2,000 objects document the rural and seafaring ways of life of the area. It includes the Miguel López Mateo nautical collection, with boats, fishing gear and 19th-century navigation instruments.
Full-scale replicas of Patagonian dinosaur skeletons. The most complete palaeontological museum in western Andalusia, opened in 2000.
Dedicated to bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez, the first promoter of Estepona's bullring. Photographs, matador costumes, historic posters and memorabilia from 20th-century Spanish bullfighting.
The first documented megalithic cemetery on the Costa del Sol. Chalcolithic dolmens and Bell Beaker burials, discovered in 2001 during preliminary works for the motorway. Guided visit, by prior reservation.
Photo: Estepona Town Council
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