Over time, Marbella has become a magnificent town, which concentrates on offering a multitude of attractions such as beautiful beaches, golf courses, pleasure harbours like Puerto Banus, luxury hotels, restaurants, commercial centres and its unbeatable natural surroundings and intense nightlife to its thousands of visitors. All this makes Marbella an inexhaustible place of enriching possibilities for body and mind, where life takes on a different meaning.

Visiting Marbella today means that you will prove straight way its spectacularly rapid change.

The local government, headed by its ex-mayor Mr. Jesús Gil y Gil, has done its utmost to improve the general image of Marbella, and at the same time executed and started important projects which define the "New Marbella", symbol of a town that works in the present looking towards the future.

Marbella has become a clean, secure and beautiful town, offering a better quality of life to its visitors and inhabitants. In its constant search for new attractions, Marbella continues to progress, which places Marbella as the International City of Tourism, reclaiming the international acclaim it deserves.

Nobody befere would have ever imagined that Marbella could change the way it did and the way it still does. Thanks to the management of the local council headed by Mayor Gil, which was based on the application of a company model to public administration, with imagination, effort and common sense, Marbella today enjoys the best infrastructure and has converted itself into a place of high interest for investors. Creating in this way richness for the municipality and thousands of jobs for its inhabitants.

Above all, Marbella has a touristic vocation and that of a modern town in continuous progress. The fact that a lot of the designed projects improve the range of facilities and spare time activities, only strengthens the reality of Marbella, which year after year, has become the prefered destination of hundreds of thousands of tourists.

The character of the people of Marbella, cordial and welcoming also helps to make nobody feel like a stranger in our cosmopolitan town.

On the following pages we will show you some typical aspects and particular sites of Marbella, but if you do have a specific request or would like to consult us for whatever reason, you can always contact the local tourist office.