More than 30,000 people have visited the exhibitions held at the Mirador del Carmen since its opening.

The exhibition ‘Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’, which has just closed, has become one of the most outstanding events of the summer cultural agenda in the city.

The exhibition space of the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center has received more than 30,000 visitors in the three exhibitions it has hosted since its opening. The last of them, ‘Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’, which closed its doors last Sunday, has become one of the most outstanding events of the summer cultural agenda in the city.

In April last year Estepona inaugurated the new exhibition center located in the Mirador del Carmen with the exhibition ‘Living in painting. Spanish art in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection’. The exhibition included a selection of 46 pieces from Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Spanish collection, and provided a broad overview of Spanish painting over more than a hundred years of history, from the last decades of the 19th century to the first decades of the 21st century.

The exhibition reflected Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza’s interests as an art collector, who since the 1990s has been acquiring outstanding works of Old Masters, American painting and 20th century avant-garde, but above all, 19th century Spanish painting, especially Andalusian and Catalan.

After its success, the exhibition with the Thyssen Museum’s holdings gave way, last spring, to the show ‘Goya. Disasters of War. Collections Fundación MAPFRE’, which offered the opportunity to see the 80 prints that Francisco de Goya y Lucientes made to express the pain and anguish he felt at the events of the war and its consequences on the civilian population.

Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’, organized by the Consistory and the Zuloaga Foundation, has been the third of the exhibitions that have passed through the facilities of the exhibition space of the Mirador del Carmen. The exhibition, with 120 works from the painter’s family, has become one of the most important events of the summer cultural agenda in the city, with success of visitors in July and August and, especially, during the month of September coinciding with the launching by the City Council of guided tours.

The exhibition has allowed an approach to the representation of the social diversity of women in art, and the role of women who for years have preserved, expanded and disseminated the collection of the Zuloaga family.

These three exhibitions, organized by the City Council together with foundations and important entities, have consolidated the Mirador del Carmen as an exhibition space of national reference. The Consistory is already working on the organization of the new exhibition that will arrive at this iconic cultural center at the end of October.