The City Council inaugurates this Friday the complete remodeling of Avenida España, which has opened the city to the sea.

The completion of the works will be celebrated with a program of recreational activities including free tastings, promotions in stores, parades and performances by Los Piratas and Azúcar Moreno.

The Estepona City Council informs that next Friday, March 5, the official inauguration of the complete remodeling of the Avenida de España, one of the most important municipal projects that has opened the city to the sea, will take place. The culmination of the last phase of works, between Terraza Street and Andalusia Avenue, has created a landscaped boulevard that runs parallel to the promenade, being integrated into it and resulting in one of the best coastal promenades in Spain.

For the inauguration, a full program of recreational activities has been scheduled, which will include everything from parades to free tastings and musical performances. Specifically, the events will begin at 20.00 hours with the ribbon cutting of authorities, which will take place at the junction between Avenida de España and Avenida de Andalucía. From 20.15 hours will start the circus parade that will be enlivened by brass band, batucada, flamethrowers, jugglers, stilt walkers, unicycles, clowns and trapeze artists.

In the Plaza Garcia Caparros has planned a free tasting of churros with chocolate, from 20.30 hours. From 21.00 to 22.00 hours will be activated happy hour with promotions in all establishments in the Avenida de España, Plazoleta Ortiz and Plaza García Caparros, which will offer products at special prices.

The musical performances will begin at 21.00 hours, in the Plaza García Caparrós, with a concert by Los Piratas. One hour later, the duo Azucar Moreno will close the events planned for the inauguration of the remodeling of Avenida de España.

The initiative of the integral remodeling of this central thoroughfare, aimed at opening the ‘urban garden’ of the center of Estepona to the Mediterranean Sea, places Estepona at the forefront of sustainable cities that are committed to quality of life, the wellbeing of citizens, the environment and ample space for pedestrians.

In this way, Estepona joins 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 strategic enclave of the municipality. Thus, the Avenida de España becomes a place of transition between the city and the sea, with a more pleasant, quiet, safe space, open to pedestrians and where nature predominates.

It also achieves a concept of a modern city open to the sea, which has another fundamental axis in the remodeled urban center of the city. In this regard, it should be remembered that in this area, during the last decade, a network of more than 130 streets have been renovated in the totality of their infrastructures and beautified, creating the powerful focus of urban revitalization that has been the result of the municipal initiative ‘Estepona, Jardín de Estepona’.

municipal initiative ‘Estepona, Garden of the Costa del Sol’. It is worth remembering that this boulevard, in its area closest to the Port of Estepona, has been complemented with the creation of a Balcony to the Mediterranean, through the redevelopment of a large public area, where a unique tower-viewpoint, the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center, has been created.

The creation of this pedestrian boulevard was preceded by the creation of road infrastructures for alternative mobility, such as the creation of the northern ring road, which connects the urban center from its eastern access through the San José school to the northern area of the Parque Ferial-Auditorio-Estadio de Atletismo and its connection with the A7 highway.