Marbella

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Marbella municipality
Marbella from La Concha, Andalucia, Spain - Sept 2009.jpg
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Marbella coat of arms
Marbella (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Andalusia
Province : Málaga
Comarca : Costa del Sol Occidental
Coordinates 36 ° 31 ′  N , 4 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 36 ° 31 ′  N , 4 ° 53 ′  W
Height : 27  msnm
Area : 116.82 km²
Residents : 143,386 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 1,227.41 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 29600
Municipality number  ( INE ): 29069
Nearest airport : Málaga ( Aeropuerto de Málaga , 43 km )
administration
Official language : Castilian
Mayor : María Ángeles Muñoz Uriol ( PP )
Website : www.marbella.es
Location of the municipality
Málaga Province
Location of the municipality of Marbella

Marbella is a large city in southern Spain on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga . The province belongs to the autonomous community of Andalusia .

Marbella has 143,386 officially registered residents (as of 2019) , including 38,195 foreigners. Among these are 5824 British and 4587 Moroccans as the largest groups of foreigners. In addition, 2561 Germans, 1196 Dutch, 158 Austrians and 130 Swiss live in Marbella as residents (as of January 2013 census) .

geography

The municipality of Marbella is 57 kilometers southwest of the provincial capital Málaga on the Mediterranean coast . It is part of the Comarca Costa del Sol Occidental . The 117 km² municipal area borders on the municipalities of Estepona , Benahavís , Istán , Ojén and Mijas .

The municipality is subdivided into the districts of Nueva Andalucía , Puerto Banús , San Pedro de Alcántara and Las Chapas . There are numerous settlements in the municipality of Marbella, some of which are privately owned by owner associations, such as Bosquemar or Marbesa .

history

The area of ​​Marbella was settled as early as the Neolithic Age. Prehistoric finds in the Pecho Redondo cave in the Sierra Blanca testify to this . Traces of early human settlement have also been discovered in the Las Chapas district, in Coro de Correa .

The place Marbella was founded by the Phoenicians as a trading center. In the 3rd century BC Chr. , The area came under the rule of the Roman Empire . At the mouth of the Río Verde , the remains of a Roman villa from the 1st century AD have been preserved. Parts of the Roman settlement of Cilniana , assigned by historians to the city of Salduba , were discovered in the San Pedro de Alcántara district.

The name Marbella probably comes from the time of the Moors , who ruled the place from 771 AD and called it Marbilha . Castle ruins and two defense towers are still preserved from this period. In the course of the Reconquista , the area of ​​Marbella was conquered by the Catholic Kings of Castile and Aragon in 1485 .

Tourism began to develop in Marbella in the middle of the 20th century. In the early 1950s, Alfonso von Hohenlohe acquired large areas of land in order to market them. In 1954 he opened the Marbella Club Hotel in what was then the village of Marbella . Then several urbanizations and apartment complexes were built. Many celebrities , including the later King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in the 1970s , had villas built in and around Marbella. The following celebrities appeared in the tabloids under the heading Marbella: Aristotle Onassis , Guy de Rothschild , Artur Rubinstein , Audrey Hepburn , Sean Connery , Gina Lollobrigida , Gunter Sachs , Brigitte Bardot , Richard Burton , Omar Sharif , Edward Kennedy and Gunilla von Bismarck .

Marbella scandal

In 1991 the contractor and president of the Atlético Madrid football club , Jesús Gil , was elected mayor by a large majority. The “Independent Liberal Group” party he founded (GIL for short in Spanish) came up with the promise to fight street crime and bring back international glamor. During his tenure, the city experienced a considerable boom in construction and investment, but after frequent ignoring of building and environmental regulations, the more recent plans were eventually stopped by the Andalusian government. In 2002, Gil was arrested and had to resign from his mayor's office on charges of investing the city's public funds in his football club.

But even under his successors, Julian Muñoz and Marisol Yagüe, the political situation did not ease. In 2006, the city council was finally dissolved by the Spanish central government after 19 city council members were arrested on suspicion of corruption. According to conservative estimates, the total amount of money that flowed was at least 2.4 billion euros. 96 people were charged.

coat of arms

Description: In the blue coat of arms, a tinned, golden, tiered fort with a blue passage and two by two blue windows standing over three silver wavy bars and by a bundle of five golden arrows pointing downwards, fanned and tied, on the left and a vertical golden crossbow yoke with a torn tendon accompanied on the right.

A golden crown rests on the shield .

Germans in Marbella

The third largest proportion of foreigners in Marbella, after the English and Moroccans - far ahead of the people of Scandinavian origin - are the Germans.

The German School in the province of Málaga is located in Elviria, a suburb of Marbella about ten kilometers from the city center. It has a good reputation and also leads to the German university entrance qualification. It has both a kindergarten and a primary school. In the secondary classes, secondary school students, secondary school students and high school students are taught. In addition to the German courses, the students are also taught in Spanish.

Sights in and around Marbella

The city has several marinas (including Puerto Banús ) and a fishing port. In neighboring San Pedro de Alcántara , which dates back to the Roman Silniana , there are ancient mosaics and thermal baths as well as the remains of an early Christian basilica from the 4th century.

  • Old town of Marbella with street restaurants

  • On the beach in Marbella

  • Puerto Banús, the city's famous marina

More Attractions:

  • Old city center with town hall from the 16th century
  • Ancient church Iglesia de la Encarnación
  • Aquapark
  • Arab wall
  • Bonsai Museum
  • Engraving Museum Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo
  • Boulevard Avenida del Mar with sculptures by Salvador Dalí
  • Crocodile Park (Cocodrilo Park)
  • Plaza de Salvador Dalí
  • Playa de la Bajadilla (beach)
  • Fontanilla Beach
  • Torre Ladrones (watchtower)

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Famous residents who passed away in Marbella

See also

  • Marbella is also the namesake of a small car, see Seat Marbella .

Web links

Commons : Marbella  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
  2. ↑ a b Costa del Sol News No. 662 of June 11, 2009, pages 47/48
  3. ^ Christian Mayer, Conde Rudis Welt. For decades, the Marbella Club was the meeting point of the rich and beautiful - a meeting with the former director, Rudolf Graf von Schönburg, in Süddeutsche Zeitung on October 1, 2009
  4. ↑ Faz.net: Marbella - a Miró on the toilet
  5. ↑ Mammoth trial of the Marbella scandal opened. Retrieved September 28, 2010 .