Casa del Aljibe — Museo Arqueológico
The Nasrid cistern was rediscovered during a renovation. Today the building houses the municipal archaeological museum with pieces spanning the Neolithic to the Roman period. A thirty-minute stop that shifts your perspective.
About this place
The building was constructed in the eighteenth century and acquired by the council in 1853 for use as a Town Hall. A 1944 renovation gave it its current configuration. Beneath the courtyard lies a Muslim-origin cistern of rectangular plan with a barrel-vaulted roof, which has given the building its name since antiquity. The archaeological museum displays pieces from the Neolithic through to the late Roman period, drawn primarily from excavations in the surrounding area. It is one of the smallest museums on the Costa del Sol and one of the best at explaining the historical foundations of the region: in half an hour you move through millennia of history with clarity and without the usual sensory overload.
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Urban memory · Siglo XIV – XX
The streets that hold memory
The historic centre of Estepona preserves memory in its squares, streets, houses and churches. Plaza de las Flores had at least four different names depending on the political power of each era. A 14th-century Nasrid cistern survives intact beneath Casa del Aljibe. The Church of Los Remedios stands on the site of a 1400-era forest. Calle Murillo is named after a doctor held captive in Algiers for thirteen years.
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