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Marbella is both tabula rasa and palimpsest.
It can be anything to anyone. You can meet a rock star in the morning and a
member of European royalty in the afternoon. There can’t be many places where
two such unique personalities might intersect. To paraphrase Churchill, it is a
kaleidoscope, wrapped in a mosaic, inside a melting pot. The result of
successive waves of visitors who have left their marks over the years, Marbella
is a social archaeological site where generations have lived lives of sun-gilded
leisure. Today the popular image of Marbella may be of a sort of European
Miami, but one need only scratch this glitzy surface to be taken back to the
time when Marbella was a simpler place.
During the 1950s it was a quiet, dusty, traditional
village, and today the old town is still a charming warren of streets, some so
narrow that you can touch the rough white walls on either side. At Easter the
solemn and dramatic religious processions snake through this maze of alleys and
squares, as they have for generations. Yet what is really striking about
Marbella is how much has remained the unchanged. Historical figures long
connected with the coast, including, of course, Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe,
may have passed into history, but their presence lives on in those who come
after them.
With a personal narrative text by historian and
journalist Nicholas Foulkes, a longtime Marbella visitor, this colorful volume
illustrates varied aspects of this picturesque port, from the mountains to the
beaches, from the delightful old town to the glamorous nightlife.
Details:
304 pages
over 200 illustrations
English language
Published May 2024
Size: 33 x 25 x 4 cm
ISBN:9781649803474
