Orange Square West Virtual Tour of Marbella
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The Orange Square or Plaza de los Naranjos is the historic centre of Marbella. For over one thousand years the people of Marbella have used Plaza de los Naranjos as the place to meet and to be seen.

Also located in Orange Square is the Marbella town hall and the Marbella tourism office.

Construction of the buildings that surround Orange Square began soon after the Moores left Spain, some buildings from 1485 and completed in 1568. The oldest original part of the Orange Square is a corner of the Old Christian Wall, next to the tourist office.

At the exact centre of Orange Square there is a bronze bust of King Juan Carlos I, the king of Spain, which was erected in 1983.

The Orange Square is full of mature Sevilla orange trees which bear fruit for most of the year. In Spring the delicate scent of orange blossom permeates the streets of the old town. The Sevilla orange is also known as bitter or sour orange and is commonly used to make marmalade and cosmetics.

A lovely story was in 1982, during the soccer World Cup. A group of fans from the Soviet Union made their way from Sevilla to Marbella where they discovered the Orange Square full of fruit, which anyone can pick. (At that time in the Soviet Union oranges were very rare) The Soviet fans picked some oranges from the trees and ate them while they happily nodded and squited their eyes in pain. This caused a real commotion with many of the Marbella locals, who had never seen anybody eat a whole bitter orange before. The locals tried to tell the Soviets that the oranges were not good to eat but the Soviets, not wanting to offend, insisted that the oranges were delicious. The locals then went to the market and bought hundreds of sweet oranges and gave then to the Soviet fans. The word is that the fans ate ten sweet oranges each and had enough left over to fill up their car.

The Marbella old town is full of restaurants, cafeterias, shops and surprises, but the Orange Square enjoys the highest concentration of them. It is lovely to sit in the middle of the square and enjoy lunch or dinner, surrounded by trees and history.

This is also the place to be on New Year's Eve. The tradition on New Year's Eve is to make a least one curcit of the square, saying hi to as many people as possible, just before midnight.


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