Torremolinos wants to fill the El Calvario neighborhood with murals

Following the intervention at Vicente Aleixandre square, a reclaimed space in the El Calvario neighborhood, where the artist Bosska transformed ... a wall with a spectacular mural dedicated to women, the City Council has initiated a project to execute another 8 works of this kind that will beautify the party walls in this area and the neighboring San Miguel.

These large-format street paintings will be displayed on the streets of Periodista Juan Villar, Río Aguasvivas, Juan Quesada Rosado, Río Isuela, and Joaquín Blake.

Currently, a tender is underway to create a technical document that must include the technical specifications for the execution of the murals, in addition to the basic study of safety and health.

One of the pillars of this initiative is community participation. In fact, a preliminary consultation has already been carried out with various neighborhood communities who have unanimously supported this proposal. Moreover, residents will be asked for their opinions on the themes of these works when the time comes.

The goal, as the local government clearly states, "is none other than to demonstrate the importance of their involvement in a project that will transform their neighborhood and make them active participants in it, cultural managers of the action and the neighborhood."

To launch this plan, the local administration has received nearly 250,000 euros in aid from the General Directorate for Promotion and Development of Tourism, under the Ministry, within the framework of the aid planned for Tourist Municipalities of Andalusia (Munitur) aimed at "improving the quality of public spaces of touristic-cultural interest."

Although the project is in an embryonic stage, it is expected to be executed in the second half of 2026.

The new murals will join other changes in El Calvario, such as the opening of the Isabel Manoja social building, with the recovery of the old market, the very Vicente Aleixandre square. In addition, the municipal government wants to use the old juvenile reception center of the Junta, currently closed, to start a social facility that will energize the surroundings.

In fact, the local administration's budget already includes an item for the demolition of the structure that was to be an extension of this building, which was never constructed.