Bathing in the white, sulfur waters of Manilva is very popular amongst Spanish people, but rather unknown to tourists as they are unpublicized. On top of that, the baths are difficult to find as you can only reach these healthful waters by diving into a subterranean cave.
The most prominent building of the village is the church and its adjoining typically Spanish cemetery. The parish church was built in the 18th century.
The Castillo de Sabinillas or Castillo de la Duquesa (the Duchess’s Castle) was, until very recently, the police and Civil Guard headquarters. The castle was built on a very straight part of the coast and so the whole stretch can be seen from the castle. The current castle is not the original one, either, and replaced an earlier building, a fortress that was used for defence in the first half of the eighteenth century, when the British took Gibraltar during the War of the Spanish Succession.