Dominating the marina, is this tower that was built between 1554 and 1557, to prevent the population from attacks by Berber pirates who continuously harassed our land, looting and causing great destruction and fear throughout the population. The Viceroy of Valencia, Don Bernardino de Cárdenas, Duke of Maqueda, ordered the construction of a whole system of watchtowers. He gave them four men in each: two on foot and two on horseback. Thus, at the moment when a pirate ship was seen, the men on horseback rode quickly to warn nearby authorities of the immediate danger, while the men who remained in the tower were in charge, by means of smoke signals by the day and bonfires at night, to alert the other towers of the invading sighting. This tower is built in the shape of a truncated cone, its diameter is six meters in the base and five in its highest part, the entrance door is located in its middle part, so to access it, a staircase was necessary "Cat" or rope. Its interior is solid from the base to the height of the door and from it, access to the terrace by an interior staircase. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest and restored in the year 1991.
"The Santa Faz monastery, with a baroque style, is located five kilometers away from the city center, in the district of the same name. Inside it keeps a relic brought from the Vatican in the fifteenth century that, according to popular tradition, was the canvas with which Veronica dried the bloody face of Jesus on the way to Calvary. Every year, on the second Thursday after Resurrection Sunday, thousands of people from Alicante come on pilgrimage to carry out the Pilgrimage of the Santa Faz (Holy Face), this being the second most important pilgrimage in Spain after the Rocío. Inside there is a dressing room behind the main altarpiece, where the relic of the Santa Faz is kept. "
The Statue of Icarus is located in the Port of Alicante, on a pedestal in front of the Stairs of the Queen's dock. It is a curious bronze sculpture of Esperança D'Ors, entitled "The return of Icarus with its surf wing". It represents the return of the young Icarus from the waters accompanied by a surfboard, which gives a modern touch to the myth of this character.
El Clot de Galvany is a Municipal Natural Area located in the rural areas of El Altet and Los Balsares within the municipality of Elche, Alicante. Given its great environmental value has been declared in addition to Municipal Natural Area, Biological Station, Site of Community Interest (LIC) and Special Protection Area for Birds (ZEPA) on a large part of its surface. In its 366.31 hectares, it is possible to differentiate several ecosystems in which there is great diversity, both of flora and fauna, of high biological value due to its scarcity and degree of threat. You can also find fossil outcrops and geological formations of great interest. In addition there are elements of the archaeological and ethnographic heritage. It is an endorheic basin surrounded by a set of small elevations and closed to the sea by a coastal dune cord. In this physical environment, diverse ecosystems and ecotones converge, that is, spaces of transition between ecosystems, which generate a great biological diversity. Despite semi-arid and climatic conditions (thermo-Mediterranean), there is a very small space in which there is great geological deviry, an important variety of soils, a great biodiversity and a rich paleontological, geological and anthropic heritage.
It receives this name from the Old Railway Station inaugurated at the end of S. XIX and that maintained the railway route between Torrevieja and Albatera, at the moment in disuse and reused like green route. This station was formed by several buildings, some of which have been used for different uses: Habanera Museum, Interpretation Center of the Salt Industry and Natural History Museum. Inside the park is the Monument to the Salinero and the Canal del Acequión, made in 1482 in order to communicate the sea and the Torrevieja Lagoon. It emphasizes within its channel a bridge of masonry of the S.XV
The Basilica of Our Lady of Socorro is a religious building that belongs to the artistic style called Levante Valencian Baroque. Its large size is due to the will of the Dukes of Maqueda-Arcos to build a temple. The construction was carried out in different phases, beginning construction around the 1650s. In a first stage the ship was built to where the chapels conclude. This period would finish around 1674, being in charge of the works the architects Francesc Verde and Pere Quintana, who were the same master architects who worked in Santa María de Elche. Later a new push is given, building the communion chapel between 1722 and 1729, which is attached to the head of the church transversally. The place occupied by the communion chapel was the site of the old church, which in turn had been the Muslim mosque. Finally, between 1729 and 1737 the works of the temple are concluded, rising the Dome and the Bell Tower by the master stonemason Lorenzo Chápuli. The shape of the temple is longitudinal and cruciform, an expression of classical architecture of the second half of the 16th century. It consists of a single nave, to give a feeling of spaciousness, without obstacles to be able to visualize the altar well. On the sides we find small chapels between buttresses that communicate with each other so as not to interrupt the religious office. The access to these is made from the central nave by means of arches of half point of high thread. The pillars that separate the chapels are marked by red crosses inscribed in a circle, a symbol that was made during the last consecration of the temple and that reproduces the twelve apostles as spiritual columns of the church. The longitudinal plan has a clear relationship with the main altar that rises on three steps. In it we find the main altarpiece, which is made of wood in a semicircular shape that adapts to the altar. It was built in the second half of the 18th century and corresponds to the Rococo style. In the center of the altarpiece there is a niche that houses the image of Ntra. Sra. Del Socorro, a sculpture from the middle of the 20th century. The side streets contain niches with the carvings of San Pedro and San Pablo. In the attic we can observe a relief of the Glory, where the Eternal Father is emerging from a cloud surrounded by angels-child and the dove is represented as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The roof is covered with a barrel vault with lunettes, which are those small half-moon vaults that are used to give light to the main vault. In the pendentives (curvilinear triangles that form the ring of the dome and rest on the arches), there are the representations of the four evangelists with their distinctive sign: Matthew with the Angel, Marcos with the Lion, Lucas with the Ox, Juan with the Eagle. It has three access covers. The main cover dedicated to the owner of the parish, Nuestra Señora del Socorro, whose authorship is attributed, according to the most modern studies, to the sculptor Juan Antonio Salvatierra, follower of Nicolás de Bussi The lateral cover of the side of the Gospel is dedicated to Saint Teresa of Jesus and the door next to the Epistle to Saint John the Baptist. We highlight: Angels, who are found in the 3 facades, are intermediaries between our world and that of the divinity. Fruits, symbolize abundance and respond to the desire for immortality. Flowers are the most abundant symbolic element of the temple, it symbolizes the transience of things. Leaves, very abundant in the façade, symbolize the whole of a collectivity, united in the same action and in the same thought. The sun and the moon are opposite signs that represent the conflicts of forces and the negative and the positive. The columns, masks, masks and cherubs, symbolize that they will protect everyone who does not enter with a predisposition to open up to the deity. The tower symbolizes the need to always be watching. The devil symbolizes that by remaining blindly subject to instinct, the fall of the spirit will occur. The crown symbolizes the reward of the proof of life and therefore a promise of immortal life. The parish was recognized with the distinction of Minor Basilica by Pope Benedict XVI by bull issued on July 15, 2006, adding to the basilicas of Santa Maria de Alicante and Santa María de Elche, thus recognizing the importance and influence of the temple in the religious celebrations, especially the Patron Saint Festivities in honor of Ntra. Sra. de las Nieves.
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 was built In the 19th century, later known as Escalera de la Reina, so that Queen Elizabeth II could access the city by that stairway. It is located in the marina, opposite the Carbonell building and in front stands the Statue of Icarus, a modern interpretation of the myth of Icarus.
Located in the Sierra de Oltá, it provides space to build fires with grills, an area with sinks, toilets, tables with benches, a playground and two parking areas.
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