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The Old Quarter of Marbella: An Arab Style Art
In a first term and as an additional clear track, visitors can see the wall of the fortress. That is to say, what popularly it is known as “El Castillo”. This wall hides in its interior the first primitive city of Marbella. The city did not take much to exceed its walls, extending in the labyrinth of narrow streets that today constitute the Old Helmet of the city.
The geographic limits of this Arab medina are appreciated perfectly by the viandante, since there Arabs control the extraordinarily narrow, devoid streets of parallel uniformity and winding layouts. All it in the purest style Arab, style that, on the other hand, still today safeguards you against the rigors of the sun, allowing you to take a walk by the streets without leaving the shelter of more amiable shade than he will include all your walk route by this Old Helmet of Marbella.
Being this one the frame in which we move, it is necessary to say that the Arab layout of the streets (that today are conserved almost intact) it was substantially modified after the reconquer by the Kings Catholics in year 1.485.
But in the same Seat of the Naranjos, we found previous works. These works are the House of the Corregidor located to the left of the City council and next to the Chapel of Santiago Apostle, which dates from year 1.552. This house is also unmistakable by its arches in the superior plant. This arch, along with the stone facade that frame the door, constitutes authentic relics of the Castilian art of the century XVI, an art that has been seen secularly darkened in its civil facet by the great religious monuments that still, in those dates, were continued executing.
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