The also known as Torre del Barranc d'Aigües, like the Torre de la Illeta, was built in the second half of the XVI century as part of the network of watchtowers located along the entire Valencian coast to prevent attacks of Berber pirates. It is located in a protected landscape of great scenic beauty, which was the border line between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon until 1296, when the monarch Jaime II annexed these territories definitively to the Aragonese crown and with it, to the Kingdom of Valencia. Although the upper part of the tower is quite deteriorated, it still retains the rest of its physiognomy that allows us to guess its original structure.

The Resemblanc Tower is located south of the town of Elche, on the outside of a farm to which it is attached within the so-called Huerto de la Torreta. Its origin, like other towers of the garden of Elche, is due to the fact that in the year 1552 a Berber vessel headed by Salah Rais, arrives at the coast of Elche, in the vicinity of the beach of Pinet, poorly defended by some watchmen. , to prevent the smugglers from crossing the lagoon under cover of the night and the controls imposed by the Marquis of Elche, and they realize the little defensive presence. They take land and quickly go to the town of Elche, where, after attempting their assault, they captured important booty in goods and people. This causes the authorities and the upper classes to create what is known as the Coastguard, an institution responsible for creating a dense network of alert and prevention of attacks from coastal enclaves and urban enclosures, since in 1550 the pirate Dragut, a mercenary salary of the Turks, punished the coasts of the Alicante garden where the defenses relaxed. Therefore, the authorities decided to provide the coast of Elche and the town of Elche, as well as its garden, with a defensive system that would keep the alert against the Moorish attacks, thus creating a series of defense towers with the aim of stopping the attacks of the pirates, raising a system along the huert and ilicitana coast with several watchtowers, among which they highlighted Ressemblanc, Vaillós, Palombar, Carrús, Asprillas, Estaña and Gaitán, that together with the coastal ones of Tamarit, Pinet , Escaletes, Talayola and Carabassí, constituting the defensive system annexed to the city of Elche and the fortress of Santa Pola, thanks to the expert Italian engineer Giovanni Baptista Antonelli in the year 1,562. It is a garden tower with a square floor and a prismatic body of four heights. The base is slightly rounded thanks to a solid plinth with a beveled edge. All the filling is irregular masonry formed by limestone and rigged with white lime mortar and gravel. As noble elements it is necessary to emphasize the masonry chained of its corners, finishing off with a corsera, of which at the moment only the modillions of the same one are conserved. The openings are of ashlar masonry, accessing the interior by an architraveled door that is located at the height of the second floor, covered with wooden beams and sky plementry. The first floor is covered with a vaulted vault and has an open space to raise the floor. The two remaining heights are very similar, being covered by wooden beams and brick plinth. These four floors communicated with each other through a spiral staircase, built in brick and plaster, which allows access to the roof by means of a sentry box also raised in material analogues. It has several rectangular and linteled windows and in its South wall there is a shield emblazoned in stone adhered to it. All of it is in a perfect state of preservation. Like the Tower of Vaillós, there are no documentary references about its construction period, although it has been granted a low medieval or even Islamic origin. The most probable thing is that it was a low medieval tower that dates back to the end of the XV century or the beginning of the XVI century, and its function was created that was control and surveillance of a piece of the Mayor canal of the town, existing in its surroundings.

The older people of Elche remember when it still served as a textile factory and even intermittently, as a prison. The dramatic process of renovation experienced by the Palace of Altamira, or Alcazar de la Señoría,makes it one of the best preserved strongholds in the province of Alicante, and at the same time an essential monumental point of reference of vital importance for the city. Residence of the noblemen of Elche between the XV and the XIX centuries, its Torre del Homenaje or Keep also housed the Kings Jaime II and Pedro IV and the Catholic Monarchs during their stays in the city and hosted the meetings of the General Council of the City up to the XV century. Factory and Prison In the construction process of the Palace of Altamira several important stages stand out. The first corresponds to the Islamic period between the XI and XIII centuries. In the present day some stretches of the City Wall from this time may be seen, along with remnants of dwellings and drainage channels, which are not visible, as well as a monumental entrance gate and the Keep, of which only the ground floor belongs to this period. The second phase, between the XV and XVI centuries, occurred after Gutierre de Cárdenas took possession of the lordship. This rebuilding work, defined by its decisive and extensive nature, shaped the general lines of the current form of the Palace. Subsequently, in the XVIII century, the Count of Altamira added a manor house of two floors to the original wall, which currently constitutes its south-facing facade. It is polygonal in shape, with angles defined by projecting circular hubs, except in the area occupied by the Keep, which has a square base and three floors. Its rooms and the outbuildings of the western wing intermittently housed a prison from the XVIII century until 1959. In 1915, the building was acquired by a local industrialist who built a textile factory in the Patio de Armas or parade ground, adjoined to the east wall, which was in operation until the end of the 1960s, at the same time as the prison. Nowadays this same parade ground is sometimes made use of as a perfect arena for social and cultural events. Restoration After being expropriated by the City Council in the 1970s in the last century, restoration of the building was carried out, including the outbuildings of the former factory, which, once refurbished, went on to house the Alejandro Ramos Folqués Municipal Archaeological Museum. In 2005, after further restoration, which brought to light remnants of the original stronghold, including an upper entrance gate from the banks of the river, whose existence was previously unknown, the palace came to form part of the new Archaeological and History Museum of Elche (MAHE). This centre was inaugurated in 2006 in conjunction with the return, for a period of six months only, of the Lady Elche, who was housed on the ground floor of the Torre del Homenaje or Keep, where an exact copy of the Iberian bust is currently displayed, ceded by the Provincial Archaeological Museum (MARQ).

The research project of the archaeological site Castellar de la Morera –also known as Castellar d'Elx– aims at documenting one of the most interesting sites within the Islamic archaeology scene in Alicante. This project has been promoted by the Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ), with the participation of the University of Alicante and the support from the Archaeological and History Museum of Elche (MAHE). Cristóbal Sanz in 1621 and Pedro Ibarra –the historian from Elche– in the 1920s already mentioned it. This piece of research tries to highlight a place that has been forgotten by research and to redefine the problems of the early Islamic settlement in the region of Elche. It is a team-based piece of research, run by Pierre Guichard, Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret and José Luis Menéndez Fueyo. The project's main aim is to explain the settlement historically in the light of the eventful processes of an Islamic society's foundation between the 8th and 10th centuries.

Although most of the walls that formed the Muslim precinct have disappeared, some remains scattered throughout the city can still be traced. On the one hand, the towers that have become part of the current urban fabric, some somewhat camouflaged, such as the Council, Santa Bárbara, Santa Lucía or Ressemblanch, which best retains its original traces. In order to take a complete impression of the old wall it will be necessary to look for the "remnants" of the same one in different locations, like the lime mortar tapial at the confluence of Fatxo and Diagonal streets; the section integrated in the current building of the Town Hall and that looks at the Plaça de Baix or the existing profile, of considerable dimensions, in the Cases de la Mare de Deu.

The tower of La Mata is a coastal watchtower built on a beach in La Mata, municipality of Torrevieja, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located next to the Plaza del Embarcadero in the urban center of Torrevieja's hamlet of La Mata. A short distance away, there is a canal that provides saline water to the lagoon of the same name as the Lagunas de La Mata and Torrevieja Natural Park. Its plant is circular, with a trochoconic shape, a diameter of about five meters and is built with masonry. It has undergone various repairs throughout history. It is known that the tower of La Mata was built again on ancient remains in the sixteenth century, being rebuilt by the military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli and one of the last repairs was made in 1982.

The tower of the Moor or of the Cabo Cervera is a coastal watchtower built on a hill located on Cape Cervera in Torrevieja, Spain. It is located in Cabo Cervera about five kilometers from the center of Torrevieja on the coastal road towards La Mata and about a hundred meters from the coast. Its plant is circular, with a trochoconical shape and is built with masonry. It has undergone several repairs throughout history, between the last two stand out: the one made in 1960 and the other in 1994. The first corresponds more to the original construction, had a spiral staircase to reach its top. In the restoration of 1994 the previous remains are modified and a crenellated tower is built, in which the shield of the city of Torrevieja stands out.1 It is declared as a Cultural Interest Property in 1985.

The city of Xàbia was protected and surrounded by fortified walls since 1874, the year which marked the definitive demolition of the defensive walls now surrounded by the present day ring roads. Hundreds of years previously, the early historical city centre of Xàbia possessed a defensive wall fortification since the beginning of the 14th Century of which now hardly any evidence remains. The detected ruins in this sector of the Avenida Príncipe de Asturias, the old ring road known as the “muralla de arriba” (upper wall), correspond to the wall, three buttress embankments which formed a type of barbican or rampart built at a relatively recent time in the early 19th Century; probably when the “new doorway” or Portal Nou was opened (18th of May 1805), or perhaps as a consequence of the Napoleonic war. These wall-faces, which have only conserved a 40/50 cm height today, are made with limestone masonry which were crafted with lime-based mortar, which used the local “tosca” (sandstone) blocks in the front section of the buttress embankments. The modern architectural intervention has consisted in consolidating and protecting the original work, which have raised the wall-faces approx. 60 cm to make them more visible.

Visitors to Castell de Castalla will discover one of the main and best preserved fortifications in the province of Alicante; which in turn is part of the Patrimonial Ensemble of Castell de Castalla. The castle, declared BIC with the category of Monument, has three parts that allow to know the evolution of the fortification (erected in the 11th century by the Muslims and deeply reformed in the 14th and 15th centuries by the Christians); as well as who were the first settlers of the hill on which today the castle is based (occupied since the 2nd millennium BC). These parts are: the Palau, which is accessed through an intricate defensive system; the Pati d'Armes with its wall paintings, rooms and the cistern in very good original condition; and Torre Grossa, from which you can contemplate spectacular views of the Foia de Castalla and the mountains that surround it. Schedule: Guided visits: January April: Tuesday - Friday 16:30 h. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 12:30 h. April-September: Tuesday - Friday 5:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays 12:30 h. In addition, on Sundays from May to June a visit at 11:00 h. May-September: Night visits Friday and Saturday at 22:00 h. and 23:55 h. July and August: at 11:30 h. October December: Tuesday-Friday 16:30 h. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 12:30 h. Price: € 3; € 2 for retirees, Carnet Jove, students, groups (30 p). Free up to 8 years old. All visits will be made prior reservation at the tourist office: 966561018. Groups (30 p) can make your visit any day and time prior reservation in the turism office