The Escaletes Tower, also known as Torre i Pep, has a circular floor plan and its main function consisted of the surveillance of this maritime sector, paying special attention to any enemy vessel that could have hidden in the nearby island of Tabarca. In that case, he had to immediately send warning signals to the Atalaiola tower and the Castillo-Fortaleza de Santa Pola. The Vigía Towers were built in 1552, under the reign of Felipe II. They are strategically located to spot the enemy before it reaches the coast and communicate with each other through smoked by day and by night luminaries. They are: Torre del Tamarit in Las Salinas, Escaletes in the Sierra and Atalayola in the current lighthouse. His custody was entrusted to four attackers: two on foot, who carried out continuous surveillance, and two on horseback, who controlled the route between two towers: communication, request for help, etc. Both the Escaletes Tower and the Atalayola (current Faro) had guards on foot, but not on horseback, so the liaison function was carried out by the two atajadores of the castle.

It is located northeast of the region of the Marina Alta, in the pre-coastal depression north of the Valencian pre-Hispanic. The foothills of the Sierra de Segaria, in the north of the area, are the only elevations of its territory, otherwise quite flat. It crosses the ravine of the Fusta and the rivers Verde and Girona that begins to build its delta downstream of the town. The main urban nucleus is 4 km away. of the Mediterranean coast on the banks of the river Girona. Its municipal area (without access to the coast) is practically flat, with the exception of the Sierra de Segaria (370 m.), Located in the northwest part of the municipality. Its municipal term limits with those of Beniarbeig, Benimeli, Denia, Pedreguer and Vergel. It has a typically Mediterranean climate, with mild winters and hot summers, with an average annual temperature of 18 ° C. The first vestiges of human settlements near Ondara are located in the caves of Colom and Corb (paleolithic medium) and cave Fosca (eneolítico) in the Sierra de Segaria, and on top of it, with an Iberian settlement. On the different theories that would explain the ONDARA place-name, it seems that Professor Manuel Sanchís Guarner's is the most rigorous. According to him, it would come from ONDAR, an Iberian word meaning sand. Special interest, due to its proximity to the current urban area and linked to the arrival of Roman settlers in Dénia, the appearance of several villas, necropolis and Roman ceramics in the games of Pla de la Font, Pujades and Vinyals, where they have recovered many vestiges. Both the town (called then Ondia) and its castle are of Muslim origin. There is documented evidence that the Cid Campeador temporarily occupied the castle, where he threatened in 1089 the city of Denia, which belonged at that time to the king of Lleida of the Al Mundir al-Hayib dynasty. Later, it was attacked by Alfonso I the Battler in the course of his military expedition through Andalusia in 1125. However, it is King Jaime I of Aragon who entered the place on June 6, 1244 and annexed it to the Kingdom of Valencia. During this time, the town belonged, sometimes to the kings, others to different particular gentlemen, like Berenguer de Pablo, Pedro Episcopal, etc. In the year 1323, King Jaime II gave his son Pedro, Infante de Aragón, population and term. At the beginning of the XVI century, Ondara will be the scene of some warlike passages of the war of the Germanías (1520-1523). There were Vicente Peris, leader of the agermanado movement, and the Marquis de Zenete, brother of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, viceroy of Valencia, on the other side. The population remained predominantly of Islamic religion until the expulsion of the Moors in 1609, after which the population increased from 1,000 to 200 inhabitants. New settlers from other places in the region and the Balearic Islands then came to fill the demographic vacuum produced. The seventeenth century will be a period of slow demographic and economic recovery, with some outbreaks of bubonic plague, until the War of Succession, where his active participation in favor of the Archduke Charles of Austria, it was, after the defeat, a revenge by the Bourbon troops. Ondara was burned and looted. The cultivation of the raisin was the engine of the urban growth of the 19th century, which was interrupted by the epidemic of phylloxera at the beginning of the 20th century; this ended the local economy and condemned the waverenses to emigration, especially to Argentina and the French Algeria. Monuments and Places of Interest Clock tower. It is the only tower that remains standing of the four that counted the old Muslim castle of Ondara. It houses the town clock, with an impressive mechanism from the beginning of the century and an artistic bell tower. Town hall. The building, erected in the first half of the seventeenth century by the Franciscans minimum on a plot given by the Marquis of Guadalest, is square, with a central cloister, and is the convent, properly speaking, or house of the friars. Convent. It is a building that dates from the seventeenth century, of an undefined and simple style. Historically referred to as Convent of the Immaculate Conception, in reality it is the church of the adjoining convent, today City Hall. At present it keeps the image of the Virgin of the Solitude, employer of Ondara. It was founded by the order of the minimum Franciscans, who occupied it until the disentailment, in the middle of the 19th century. Parochial Church. It is the headquarters of the Parish of Santa Ana. Building built in the second half of the 16th century, it has been recently rehabilitated. It does not have a defined style. Bullring. It was built between the end of the last century and the beginning of the current one with some elements of arabesque style and with a solid structure of masonry and mortar. Inaugurated on October 28, 1901, it was almost completely destroyed in the Spanish Civil War and rebuilt in 1957. The Azud. It is a small stone dam, of Muslim origin. Cool place in summer thanks to the elms that cross the edge of the ravine, and leisure for the little ones. It has been repopulated with birds such as ducks, geese and geese, although currently they are not seen often. Public Park Segaria. Municipal recreational area of ​​94,000 m² located in the Sierra de Segaria. Built with European funds in 1996, it has the essential elements to spend an ideal day outdoors. Access is through a rural road, to the right of the local road from Puente del Vergel to Beniarbeig. Parties: Festivities. The second weekend of July is celebrated in honor of the Virgen de la Soledad. It is the most important religious festival of the town and of great renown in the region. Saint James They are popular festivals and the most participatory. They are organized by the City Council. The main acts are the bull entrances, from the Calle Mayor to the Plaza de Toros, and the bull bolted. Currently most activities are oriented around the rocks and quintadas, organized in gambling dens.

This museum occupies the 18th century Gravina Palace, which once belonged to the Count of Lumiares and housed the Provincial Archives. It exhibits works owned by the Provincial Council of Alicante, with collections comprising works of art created in Alicante from the Middle Ages through to the early 20th century. Open in 2019.

According to tradition, this sanctuary was built on the old Gothic parish of Saint Julian when a picture of the Virgin was discovered after the city had been reconquered. The old hermitage, or church was not built before the XV century and it is thought that it was in the place of the current crossing and the Hallazgo chapel or the 'Capilla del Hallazgo'. In 1747 the old temple was demolished and the present one built between 1750 and 1776 by Bernardo Rippa, with important refurbishment work being carried out throughout the XX century. It is a baroque temple, with a Latin cross floor and neoclassic façade, with an anagram of our Lady of Monserate (Ntra. Sra. de Monserrate). Orihuela turistica Inside the Hallazgo chapel is the cave where it is said that the Virgin Mary appeared and above this, the old niche which is dedicated to the Christ of the Good Death (Cristo de la Buena Muerte). The niche of the Virgin of Monserrate, patron saint of the city is in the main altar.

It is worth noting the cultural trail "Canal de la Rambla Salada-Los Lagos", whose route is composed of 14.5 km and lasts approximately 4 hours. During the tour, which begins about 7 km from Albatera along the road to the salt, those who take it will be able to admire hydraulic channels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, geological formations, salt births, pools of water ... Path data: Travel distance: 14.5 km Cumulative difference in elevation: 300m Approximate time: 4 hours Trails that link: PRV-180 "La Algüeda" Historical Points: Hydraulic canal XVIII and XIX centuries Natural Points: Salt births and geological formations. Difficulty: High

The Plaza de la Santísima Faz is one of the most picturesque and bustling of the old town of Alicante. Located behind the City Hall, it is one of the entrance doors to the old quarter, and it is accessed from the Calle Mayor, or from the lateral arches of the Town Hall. Flanked by tall palm trees, from the same, we can see a fountain with a relief of the Santa Faz on one of its fronts and the back facade of the Town Hall, whose beautiful door of the eighteenth century is considered one of the most beautiful baroque achievements of the eighteenth century . In short, the Plaza de la Santísima Faz is in an ideal location to make a stop on the way during the visit to the historic center of Alicante, to stop to eat some delicacy in one of its restaurants, or to visit the artisan market that It is held there on Fridays and Sundays. Formerly this square was called Calle de Guzmán and in one of its disappeared buildings (today, of new construction) we can find a descriptive plaque, which indicates that the illustrious Francisco Xavier Balmis i Berenguer was born there. (1753-1819), surgeon of Carlos IV and illustrious doctor, who introduced the vaccine against smallpox in America and the Philippines, and was named favorite son of Alicante in May 2003.

El Portalet Palace was built in the middle of the 18th century. It receives its name to be located on the corner between the street of Labradores and known as Portalet de Capuchinas, now Calle de Santo Tomás, and whose name is due to the existence of a door, located at the end of the street, which allowed to cross the wall, that passed by the Rambla, to arrive at the Convent of the Capuchinas. Today the palace is the result of a multitude of reforms that its residents carried out over three centuries and is shown to us as a living testimony of the history of the city of Alicante. In the 19th century part of the building was managed by the Maisonnave-O'Connor family. At the end of the 19th century it was the headquarters of the Philharmonic Society, of the Federal Republican Party, and here was the writing of its newspaper La Federación. At the beginning of the twentieth century the building accommodated the Provincial Mercantile Montepio of Alicante, whose presence is due to the exquisite decoration of the interiors of the Noble Hall where this association organized a multitude of parties, charities, and conferences. Under the direction of this organization, during the first half of the 20th century the most important reforms were carried out in this house with the transformation of the interior spaces and the addition of the top floor. The current renovation has allowed the building to be recovered in all its splendor and three of its rooms have been museumized, one on the ground floor that houses an Interpretation Center of the building itself, another on a mezzanine floor with the Spanish Guitar Collection Romanillos-Harris, and, finally, in the other mezzanine, the exhibition "Monumental Alicante of Vila Nova a la Vila Vella" that runs through our Casco Antiguo, through seven historical buildings. The noble floor itself has a huge interest. Regardless of the self-interest of the building's visit, the noble room and the third floor hall, as well as the roof, can host cyclical activities and extraordinary activities of relevance in the field of culture, outreach and social relations .

At the beginning of the 40s, the town hall of Alcoy rehabilitated the building to be used for cultural purposes. On 18-7-1945 the museum was inaugurated under the name of Museum of Art and Public Library. Later, in 1958, it would be renamed Municipal Archaeological Museum "Camilo Visedo Moltó", in memory of its creator. In recent years the building has undergone a complete interior rehabilitation, as well as a notorious expansion (1985-1990). On the ground floor there is a changing exhibition room (90 m2), designed to show the latest research and findings. The current permanent museographic exhibition (192 m2) presents a selection of archaeological materials arranged thematically and chronologically. A specialized library is also open to the public. The museum has warehouses, a restoration laboratory, a drawing cabinet and an administration area.