Basílica de Vega del Mar

Today: Basílica paleocristiana de Vega del Mar, San Pedro Alcántara (Marbella)

Place: Vega del Mar (San Pedro Alcántara (Marbella))
Kind: Church
Built: 5th to 6th century
What remains: Ruins
Visiting: Not checked

A three-aisled church, almost square in plan, with two facing apses, a type found in North Africa, and beside one of them the baptistery, with a font that joins the shape of a cross to that of a fish. Its dating is disputed: its own article dates it to the 6th century, built over an earlier basilica of the 4th, and other sources place it between the late 4th and the 6th. The walls survive only a little above the ground, built up after the excavations of 1930, with the cemetery's graves around them; what was found went to the Museo Arqueológico Nacional and, from the last campaigns, to the Museo de Málaga.

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