A bit of history.
Marbella is a city in southern Spain, which belongs to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Located on the shores of the Mediterranean, between Malaga and the Strait of Gibraltar, and the slopes of the Sierra Blanca.
It is one of the most important tourist towns on the Costa del Sol and throughout most of the year is the center of attraction for international tourism mainly because of its mild climate, its infrastructure, provision of facilities of hotel industry and its many fields golf (15 in the Borough). In each main enclave of Marbella can enjoy our Restaurants in the various promenades, in the old town, close to Faro in Marbella, Puerto Banus or the San Pedro de Alcantara.
La Pesquera del Faro
The city has experienced a continuous expansion and growth throughout the past decades, and has adopted a style of tourism based on the demands of visitors and temporary residents of medium and high purchasing power.
Marbella bounded on the north by the municipalities and Istán Ojén, northwest with Benahavís andalusia, andalusia andalusia west and east Estepona Mijas.
Within the municipality there are two main population clusters: Marbella and San Pedro de Alcántara. The rest of the population is scattered in many neighborhoods, notably New Andalucia and Las Chapas.
Marbella is protected in the northern mountains of Sierra Blanca, and this makes the city enjoys a microclimate that creates an annual average temperature of 18 ° C. Sometimes, though increasingly common, the highest peaks of the Sierra are covered with snow, which usually melt in a day or two.
* By road: Highway of the Mediterranean (A-7), Autopista del Sol (AP-7). Inland road A-397 towards Ronda, of great landscape value.
* By air: The nearest airport is Malaga International Airport, 45 km.
* By train: The nearest station is close to Fuengirola, a 27 km long distance and is located in Málaga, a 57 km.
It is easy to access other places, like Malaga and Algeciras, by bus. There is a bus service along the coast. Malaga airport is also accessible by bus.
Traditionally the people of Marbella have been called "marbelleros" in popular language, and "marbellenses" in worship, and consisted in dictionaries and encyclopedias. Now, however, and since the mid-fifties, the Marbella are also "marbellís or Marbella.
The use of "Marbella," as adjective, derives from an initiative of the writer and journalist Victor de la Serna (1896 - 1958), who documented a series of articles on "The Marine Andalucía hit in the History of Malaga his province, Francisco Guillén Robles, Robles this word used to describe the Muslim inhabitants of Marbella. This adjective is most often used to always talk to the people of Marbella, both the media and by people outside the city. However, the native of Marbella prefer the use of the word "marbelleros" to refer to them, even to be annoying the word "Marbella". Therefore, maintaining the position that when they speak of "marbelleros" refers to people born there, and when they speak of "Marbella" refers to the people of Marbella, in general. Also received, once the humorous nickname of "buttery" with neighboring peoples.
In the Borough remains have been found to testify that it was inhabited since the Paleolithic and Neolithic. In Roman times, what is now known as Casco Antiguo, probably corresponds with the city of Salduba.
During the Islamic era, the Muslims built in the tenth century, a castle and then a fence that protected the city. The name may derive from the name you gave the Arabs: Marbil-la, which, according to recent linguistic studies, is derived from a toponym ibérico above. On June 11 of 1485 is the Christian conquest in the locality.
In the early nineteenth century emerged from Marbella blast furnaces that operate at the iron mine and timber Ojén the mountains.
During the Second Republic, Marbella experienced major social transformations, driven by strong political and social mobilization, which are cut short by the outbreak of civil war and the subsequent repression by the Franco regime.
After World War II, appeared in Ricardo Soriano Marbella Hermansdorff von Scholtz, Marquis of Ivanrey, who made propaganda of Marbella between the rich and famous friends, like Prince Maximilian von Hohenlohe-Langeburg. Ricardo Soriano bought a farm located between Marbella and San Pedro, where he constructed a resort hotel called the "Sale and houses the Rodeo," the beginning of tourism development in Marbella.
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