Location Description Estepona
Well-known, busy, family-friendly town and holiday village with 67'000 inhabitants, in the south-western part of the region, directly by the sea, in a convenient position, 85 km south-west from Málaga, 25 km west from Marbella. In the resort: supermarket, shops, grocery, butchery, bakery, post office, restaurant, bar, disco, evening entertainment. Besides: pharmacy, doctor. Sights Granada, Alhambra 200 km, Gibraltar 55 km, Sierra Nevada 250 km, Zoo Selwo Aventura, coach tours. Estepona has become one of the most emerging tourist coastal cities on the Costa del Sol. Its special location between the sea and the mountains makes it possible to enjoy highly differentiated attractions in a short geographical space. Varied landscapes crossed by dozens of streams, small rivers and ponds where you can enjoy sports and relax at the same time. Lovers of hiking in green spaces can enjoy trails and excursions, discovering places such as the Sierra Bermeja Natural Area or the San Isidro Municipal Park, which has forest tracks where you can practice outdoor activities. Estepona offers the possibility of practicing all kinds of sports, with special importance being water sports, paddle tennis, tennis, horse riding or Golf in the numerous golf courses such as El Paraíso or Atalaya on the New Golden Mile, La Quinta or Los Arqueros in Benahavís, Valle Romano Golf or Doña Julia in the Casares area. The beautiful Port of Estepona, with its indisputable marine air, offers us a relaxed and pleasant walk. On Sundays, walkers can enjoy a market in the same port and it consists of numerous restaurants and shops where they can enjoy the quiet and the sunset. It also has 447 moorings from 8 to 35 meters in length, half of them for rent. The historic center of Estepona still preserves the air of a small Andalusian town, with white houses and quiet squares adorned with pots full of flowers. Estepona has various attractions such as the Botanical-Orchid Park with a total area of 16,230 square meters divided into 3 areas: an outdoor park, an access square where we find a large 17-meter-high waterfall and an orchid garden, with more than 5,000 plants, including more than 1,300 species of orchids from around the world. Inaugurated in 1999, is the Selwo Aventura theme park and zoo, with more than 100 hectares and more than 1000 animals in semi-freedom conditions, in different ecosystems. In its commitment to culture, it offers us curious and imaginative murals that decorate city buildings of various kinds, sculptures and museums such as the Mirador del Carmen exhibition center with the Carmen Thyssen exhibition on Spanish authors, a paleontological museum, an ethnographic museum or archeological Museum. Regarding its 17 beaches, among which we find Playa de la Rada, Playa del Cristo, La Galera, Bahía Dorada, Arroyo Vaquero, Costa Natura (nudist), Atalaya, Costalita or Playa Bella, we can highlight the number of beach bars or bars of beach and the 7 beacon towers distributed along its 23 km of coastline that are the testimony of a defense system that lasted until the 19th century: Arroyo Vaquero, Saladavieja, Padrón, Velerín, Guadalmansa or Desmochada, Saladillo and Baños or Casasola. In short, a paradise of tranquility and entertainment, a continuation of the coastline of Marbella and Benahavís on the one hand and of Casares, Sotogrande and San Roque on the other. Thus, Estepona constitutes an urban center worthy of your best and unforgettable holidays.
Summer
Sandy beach, with beach facilities, suitable for children. Waterpark "Aquapark Mijas" in 65 km. Sports harbour. Sailing, surfing. Tennis, golf course. Riding. Children's playground.
