The town stands in considerable constrast, after another
sequence of apartment-villa, to most of what is come
before. It is undisputedly the quality resort of La
Costa del Sol. Where restaurants and bars are more
stylish and everything cost considerable more. It
has the highest per capita income in Europe and more
Rolls Royces than any European city apart from London.
The town has been spared the worst excesses of concrete
architecture inflicted upton Torremolinos. Marbella
also retains the greater part of its old town (set
back a little from the sea and the new development).
Centred on La Plaza de los Naranjos
and still partially walled, the old town is hidden
from the main road and easy to miss. Slowly this original
quarter is being bought up and turned into quaint
clothes boutiques and restaurants, but this process
isn't that far avance. You can still sit in on an
ordinary bar in a small old square and look up beyond
the whitewashed alleyways to the mountains of Ronda.
Truly the rich dont stay in Marbella
itself. They secrete themselves away in villas in
the surrounding hills or lie around on phenomenally
large and luxury yacht at the marina and casino complex
of Puerto Banus, 6km. out of town towards San Pedro.
If you are impoverished, this fact is worth nothing
as its sometimes possible to find work scrubbing and
repairing sair yachts. As you expect Banus has more
than its complement of cocktail bars and seafood restaurants,
most of them very pricey.
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