Desde el Mar

Author: José Fernández Ríos.
Location: Calle Ricardo Ortega (Instituto Monterroso).

Stepona is an outdoor museum, which shows us culture and art in the streets. One of its magnificent sixty one murals that are part of the impressive Estepona’s Route of Artistic Murals is “Desde el Mar” (From the Sea), also known as Alegoría de Estepona (Allegory from Estepona).

This mural is a hyperrealist architectural optical illusion painted by José Fernández Ríos, who has created ten of the murals of this picturesque and lovely city. This fabulous piece of art, whose dimension is 200 m2 and can be seen from five different perspectives, is situated on three Monterroso High School’s walls.

Gazing at each part of the astonishing mural, the author shows the elements of the coat of arms of Estepona. Those elements, which are seen from the sea, are a rough deep blue sea, a beautiful fishing sailboat whose name and date are a tribute to this education institution, the stunning mountain“Sierra Bermeja” and an ancient watchtower.And last but not least, if you take distance and look at the perspectives in which the horizons of the sea of each side are aligned, you will witness a fascinating colossal image.