The Estepona City Council has completed its project to completely renovate the Avenida de España for pedestrians, converting this central thoroughfare (formerly the N340) into a large landscaped boulevard that opens up the city to the sea, creating a promenade that extends along a kilometer of urban coastal strip.
In concrete terms, this project covers the areas between Avenida Juan Carlos I and Calle Delfín, as well as the extension from Calle Delfín to the Estepona lighthouse.
These two phases join the previous one carried out between Calle Terraza and Avenida Juan Carlos I. The mayor of Estepona, José Maria Garcia Urbano, explained that this pioneering initiative “places Estepona at the forefront of sustainable cities, which focus on quality of life, the well-being of citizens, the environment and open spaces for pedestrians”.
In this way, Estepona unites its urban core and the heart of its economic and social activity with the tourist attraction of the sea, with the consequent revitalization of this entire strategic enclave of the municipality.
As a result, this avenue becomes a place of transition between the city and the sea, with “a more pleasant, calm, safe space, open to pedestrians and where nature predominates; in short, one of the preferred places to enjoy the city”, he felt.
It also achieves a modern city concept open to the sea, which has another fundamental axis in the city’s renovated downtown area.
In this respect, it should be recalled that in this area, over the last decade, it has generated a network of over 130 streets renovated throughout its infrastructure and beautified creating the powerful focus of urban revitalization that has been the municipal initiative ‘Estepona, Garden of the Costa del Sol’.
The councillor stressed that, with this new strategic project, “Estepona continues to progress towards a modern, dynamic, attractive city that generates jobs and wealth”, placing itself furthermore “at the forefront” of sustainable urban planning and abounding in the city model promoted over the last decade, which has proved to be an urban planning “of success, empathy and acceptance by citizens”.
The project also included the renovation of the waterfront running through these sections, as well as the replacement of the sewerage networks, which were upgraded with a new wastewater and stormwater collector in line with the city’s sewer master plan, new supply networks, natural gas, street lighting and irrigation, which were also renovated.
This included the demolition of the existing surface to create a wide pedestrian boulevard surrounded by planters, although the steel is primarily intended for pedestrian use, also features markings for a cycle path that gives continuity from the port area to the La Cala area and will, in addition, allow road traffic for emergency vehicles.
In the design of the roadway, the emphasis is on eliminating architectural barriers to promote an inclusive city.
This large pedestrian boulevard culminates in the Mirador del Carmen, a socio-cultural facility for public use that houses a large vertical library and study spaces, a music conservatory, an auditorium for cultural events, a major exhibition hall, which opens with some 50 pieces from the Carmen Thyssen collection, and a tower-belvedere from which to revel in a view of the Mediterranean and the city’s marine essence. If you are looking for a property in Estepona and the surrounding area, we invite you to consult our catalog on the pages :
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