Estepona Castle

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Le château en bref

In the heart of the historic centre of Estepona, on the Costa del Sol, the remains of a coastal fortress survive, known as the Castle of San Luis. The site, occupied from the Muslim period by a rectangular enclosure and a watchtower whose foundations were located beneath the market, was taken over and transformed after the Castilian conquest. In the sixteenth century, in the context of the Morisco revolt of 1568 and the threat of Barbary corsairs, a bastioned fortification facing the sea was built there, with an arcaded parade ground and barracks. Adapted into an artillery battery in the eighteenth century, damaged by the earthquake of 1755 and then destroyed by French troops in 1812, it was subsequently abandoned and absorbed into the urban fabric. The clearing of the houses built against the walls (2014), followed by a consolidation and enhancement project launched in 2024 with European funding, aims to turn it into a museum space.