🧬 Distinguishing features
Compared with the other areas of its level, in its municipality and in Spain. Its key data is elsewhere on this page.
El Capricho has 129 residential buildings, and 126 are single-family houses: 98%. There are 3 buildings with 10 homes or more. The largest block, with 81 homes, is at Avenida Don Jaime de Mora y Arago, 3. Of its 126 houses, 9 have a pool: 7.1%. A typical house has 190 m² of floor space on 101 m² of land. The median height is three storeys. One or two storeys: that is the case for 43% of its buildings.
About 1.6 km west of the centre of Marbella is El Capricho. From north to south it stretches about 0.2 km; from east to west, 0.2 km. La Virginia, to the north, and La Pavona Real, to the east, are the zones closest to it. Of the residential buildings of Marbella, 0.8% are here.
Its median building dates from 1989. Between 1960 and 1979, 3.1% went up. Of its buildings, 3.1% predate the 1979 thermal standard. Since 2000, 3.9% of today's buildings have gone up.
There are energy certificates for 14 buildings, 11%. The most common rating is E. Only one has an A or B rating. F or G, the worst ratings, account for 7.1% of the certificates.
Sources: Cadastre and CartoCiudad · CasasValue (CASAS.ES) · Household Income Atlas and 2021 Census (INE) · CASAS.ES measurements · boundary: IGR Poblaciones 2024, © IGN. Data as of 2026-10-19.