Iglesia de Ntra. Sra. de los Remedios
The twin towers are the visual landmark of the old town. But in 1400, where stone now stands there was a pine forest. The current church was built by the Franciscans between 1725 and 1766, on that earlier woodland. The disentailment of 1835 changed everything.
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In 1400, the site where the Church of Los Remedios now stands was covered by a pine forest. Three centuries later, the Franciscans built a convent here between 1725 and 1766. The stone façade visible today dates from 1772. Mendizábal's disentailment of 1835 converted the convent to public use, and the church remained as we know it today: late Baroque, with two towers flanking the façade that have since become the most recognisable silhouette in the old town. Inside, the church holds the image of Estepona's Patron Saint, whose August celebration is one of the most important dates in the local calendar. The tower has 135 steps. Seen from the Plaza de las Flores at dusk, with the towers backlit against the sky, it is one of the most photographed images in the city. What those photographs rarely show is that there is a buried forest beneath all that stone.
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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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Estepona's 124 fishermen
18th-century Estepona fits into a municipal census: 124 fishermen with traditional nets, vineyards, olive trees, grain and a winepress in every farmhouse. A human-scale city whose economy tourism had yet to invent.
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