Estepona

Ibn al-Khatib described the place in the late fourteenth century as a declining town known for its delicacies, and the Arabic name it carried, Astabbuna, is the one still audible in the Spanish. Henry IV of Castile took it in 1457, and it was governed as a district of Marbella until Philip V granted it a charter of its own in 1729 — which is the whole of its claim and is enough.