Parques de Estepona
Over 100 hectares of public green space across the city. Parque El Calvario holds the Ermita del Calvario, built around 1818 as a place of care for the sick and those with leprosy, kept outside the urban core. Today it has a statue of Juana Luna, Estepona's midwife.
About this place
Estepona has more than 100 hectares of public green space, distributed across the historic centre, residential neighbourhoods and the approaches to the town. Parque El Calvario, inaugurated in 2001, is one of the largest. Inside it stands the Ermita del Calvario, whose construction dates from around 1818. Its origins are bound up with the care of the sick: it was a space for care and isolation outside the urban core, as was common for leprosy patients in the era. What was once a lazaretto is now a park. And in that same park stands a statue of Juana Luna, the midwife who made her rounds through Estepona on a Vespa at a time when almost no women drove. Two stories of care in the same space: one from the nineteenth century, one from the twentieth. Parque de Las Mesillas completes the offering of large green spaces, with broad walking areas, shade trees and paths. The selection of trees — poplars, ficus and ornamental species — reflects criteria of climate comfort and sustainability.
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Living history
To understand this place better.
Every corner of Estepona carries a story. These articles tell the stories behind this place.
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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Juana Luna, the midwife on a Vespa
Juana Luna was a midwife in Estepona when women on motorbikes were an exception. Her statue in Parque del Calvario shows her with the Vespa. A figure who captures a whole era in a single image.
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