Virgen de los Dolores

Part of a former fortress dating back as far as the 10th century, the old town still boasts the fortifying walls and some other remnants of the Alcazaba of the Medieval Medina of Marbella. What's left is far less impressive than what you will find in Granada, Málaga or Córdoba, but together with the other monuments in the old town they still make for a very impressive walk.

The square lined by the city hall, orange trees, restaurants and bars is the lively heart of the old town. Built after the Christian reconquest of the city, it is an example of renaissance architecture.

A former mosque, this building next to the main square is nowadays a small church — the oldest one in Marbella.

Marbella's baroque cathedral, from 1618 and colorful on the inside.

It was built in 1994 on the site of a former hospital. The throne inside it depicting Christ is much older and is carried around Marbella on Good Friday.

A 16th-century chapel that also has functioned as hospital and a home for foundlings.