The Esteban Gonzalez is a boat museum that recreates the authentic and genuine life on board of the fishermen of Santa Pola. It’s situated in Constitution Square, around the Town Hall. Visitors can enjoy a guided tour, going to the most important places of the boat. Descripction of the visit - Access to the stairs by the stern of the boat - Visit to the navigation bridge - Ride on the bow and panoramic view - Access to the bow and stern cabins - Recreation of the engine room - Access to the boat's hold - Viewing of the fishermen's live in the original galley Reservations: Aquarium. Phone. 965 416 916. or send your e-mail to: barcomuseo@santapola.es

The Salt Museum is located in a former salt factory within the Nature Reserve. As well as learning about the salt extraction process and its history, this museum gives a lot of useful information on the Nature Reserve, from where a route can be followed to observe Flamingos, Marbled Teals, Common Shelducks, Little Egrets, Caspian Gulls, Black-winged Stilts… This beautiful Nature Reserve, protected since 1988 and recognised as a “Special Important Birds Area”, has been included in the list of “North African and European Humid Areas”. Stretching over 2,496 hectares, this wetland managed to survive thanks to the setting up of salt flats at the end of the last century. Salt extraction is the main economic activity in this area and, to a great extent, makes up the current ecosystem. The salt flats work this way: seawater flows into a circuit of ponds to get a gradual salt concentration as a consequence of evaporation. Mediterranean salt flats are of great biological interest owing to the fact that water flow doesn’t stop in winter. The ponds remain flooded all year through, so the ecosystem stays unaffected. Birds feed on fishes and invertebrates that go into the salt flats while salt production benefits from mineral richness brought by the birds’ excrements.

The Maritime Museum complex is located in the Castle-Fortress of Santa Pola. It has three different sections: 1. History and Arqueology (South wing) It is presented as a monographic exhibition, focussing on the history of Santa Pola, with three main topics: Prehistoric era. the Iberians, the RomanPort and the history of the Castle. 2. Ethnography of the Sea and Fishing (North Wing) Fishing has always been an important source of wealth merely by itself, but acquires industrial proportions when man gets a better knowledge of the sea and knows how to evaluate its resources and then exploit them. With the sea as a setting, seamen as the main actors and boats as the tools, these are the three substantial elements that shape Maritime History and make it an essential part of the history of mankind. This is reflected in the Maritime Museum and Fishing Museum, as the materials in the exhibition explain their relevance with the environment. 3. Historical background of Music and the Sea (East Wing) This section consists of five rooms dedicated to the history of music in Santa Pola and the archaeological remains the Cap de l'Aljub of Tower, the predecessor of the current castle-fortress. The Tower of the Port del Cap de l’Aljub, was built in XIV century, This small defensive settlement gave rise to a country house (this term is used in the medieval documents to refer to this small village) with some shops to supply the soldiers and sailors. It also was used as a warehouse in order to protect the goods from being stolen, as well as from the inclement weather. Additionally, there was a church and an oven for baking bread. The Music section consists of three rooms, two dedicated to Alfosea, and Quislant teachers and one to the music bands as for example Banda Unión Musical, Mare de Deu de Loreto, La Colla's Freu, La Coral Levantina and Coral Villa de Santa Pola, for their contribution to the culture and Santa Pola traditions.

Torrevieja’s floating museums are made up of three ships of different origins. On the one hand we have the S-61 Delfín Submarine and the Albatross III Customs Surveillance Patrol Boat. The S-61 was the Spanish Navy's first ship which was converted into a floating museum specifically in the town that gave it its combat flag in 1971. The Albatross III Patrol Boat belonged to the Customs Surveillance Service until the 23rd of March 2006, when it became Torrevieja's second floating museum. And lastly, the “Pascual Flores” schooner, a reconstruction of the original ship used by the sailors of Torrevieja to sell their prized salt.

In the old town is the Museum of Ethnic Music Busot. An exquisite sample taken from all ages, cultures and corners of the world instruments from the collection of the renowned musicologist Carlos Blanco Fadol, the largest collector of ethnic instruments in the world. Museum of Ethnic Music Busot offers intense thematic exhibition of musical instruments more strongly rooted in human tradition of the different ethnic groups of our planet. Through clues about its origins, its thematic classification of the collection by habits, customs and territories, the museum brings not only visitors, but also the student of ethnography, the information needed to better understand the evolution of this ancient manifestation ; music as a worldview; instruments as ways to interpret, understand and master the same world. A must visit The collection of Carlos Blanco Fadol exposed in these rooms means the continued effort of four decades of research and collection of ethnic musical instruments through 145 countries spread across five continents. A unique collection of over 4,000 exclusive pieces , of which this museum offers a significant selection, grouped in different thematic fronts. A must for lovers of culture , where you can discover and listen to the sounds of the world. The museum is located just 5 minutes drive from the Caves of Canelobre , in the old town, opposite the Church of San Lorenzo Martire and has a large public parking where to park while enjoying your visit at Busot. The visit to the Museum of Ethnic Music Busot is an essential stop if you are visiting the famous Caves Canelobre , so offered a combined ticket for the visit.

Located in the basement of the building "Casa del Paso" on the campus of the Salesians of the University Miguel Hernandez, Museum of the wall includes historical elements of great importance for the city: its ancient wall, Islamic dwellings, Arab baths, remains a gothic palace and the Casa del Paso ... .In addition, interesentantes ceramic sets, among which ceramics and faience of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Islamic Moorish tiles and ceramics with a variety of shapes and decorations.

Hernandiano in the corner is the house where poet Miguel Hernández lived with his family. Us discover its beautiful facade, painted the traditional way with gray base, recercado doors and windows in dark ocher and light ocher wall. Inside the visitor can relive moments of the poet's life through its rooms: the room of Michael, the kitchen, the patio shed for goats and the garden, which is the famous Higuera so often I am inspired by his first verses.

Since its inauguration, the MUA has had its own publications, with an activity that, although it has its greatest volume in the edition of catalogs, includes monographs, reasoned catalogs, essays, didactic publications, facsimiles, guides of the collection or results of diverse activities. The Museum of the University of Alicante (MUA) is a pioneering project within the Spanish university, for its innovative architectural design and its museographic proposal based on the alternation of temporary exhibitions of a scientific, artistic and patrimonial nature. Created in 1999, the MUA is conceived as an effective instrument to provide comprehensive training to the student, through initiatives that contribute to enhance their sensitivity and facilitate a more reflective knowledge of our condition, society and history. The main mission that the MUA faces is to become a space of cultural dynamization, learning, encounter and confrontation, which allows to approach the innovation and experimentation of the university sphere and contemporary art to the whole society. In this sense, the museum becomes a knowledge socializer and vehicle of activation of the cultural life of the community.

According to architectural documents and writings, the first construction of the fortress could be chronologically chronologically placed between the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th. With the arrival of the Corella family, Counts of Cocentaina, to the old medieval construction were added architectural elements of later styles, mainly the Renaissance and Baroque during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the beginning of the 21st century we have a square building with three towers that stand out to the north, southeast and northeast, while the one located to the northwest is between the walls of the convent. From the entrance door through the courtyard to the staircase you can access the first floor. From the patio you enter the chapel of San Antonio Abad, reformed at the beginning of the 16th century. The chapel is presided by the Renaissance altarpiece dedicated to the saint made by the painter of Cocentaina Nicolás Borrás at the end of the 16th century.

The museum of the Reconquest was set up in 1985, by the Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians) Festivals Association ‘Santas Justa y Rufina’ with headquarters in the palace 'Palacio de Rubalcava'. When it changed premises in 2003 to where it is currently located, the Festivals Association, proposed a new museum project, which was inaugurated in 2006. There are two main areas, one dedicated to the Moorish group and the other the Christians. Many aspects of the Moors - Christian celebrations, such as the history, the legends, the krewea, the role each had in the celebrations, the music etc. are touched upon in this museum.