The fifteenth-century old town, the oldest chapel and the one fragment of city wall still standing.
Marbella keeps its history quietly. Behind the marina and the designer names is a fifteenth-century old town, and hidden between its houses is the one thing the guidebooks skip: the last standing fragment of the Moorish city wall.
You would walk straight past it. That is precisely the point of going with someone who knows the street. The Plaza de los Naranjos, the oldest chapel in town, a doorway that has not changed in five hundred years — the old town rewards slow eyes and a good story.
We end the walk at that surviving wall, which is where the name comes from: Behind Marbella’s Walls.
