The Castle of Biar dates from the 12th century. It is included in the route of the Vinalopó castles, is one of the great attractions of Biar, declared a National Monument in 1931, nowadays BIC, it has an Almohad vault dating from the 12th century. Around a central patio the interior of the castle was organized, being arranged a whole series of dependencies destined to assure the defense as well as to give shelter and service to the warden, his family and the garrison. In the 15th century, the surveillance room or guardhouse is described; the house of fora, used as haystack; the palau nou that housed the warden's family; the rebost or storeroom to store provisions; the cuina or kitchen with its large fireplace; the house of forns or oven; the stable; the capella or church under the invocation of Santa María Magdalena and Santa Quiteria; dining room. All this chaired by the so-called Master Tower used to store the arms and accoutrements of the castle. These units, roofed by roofs with curved tile water, would allow rainwater to be collected for storage in the cistern excavated in the rock that is still preserved. After the Christian conquest of Biar by Jaime I in February of 1245, the castle maintained a great importance in the defensive system of the Valencian southern border, given the outstanding strategic situation from the political and military point of view of Biar against the kingdom of Castile . The castle of Biar, was declared a National Monument on June 4, 1931. It is located on a rocky hill at 750 m altitude, is of Muslim origin and is located chronologically in the mid-twelfth century. Its structure, which is maintained, retains a double walled enclosure, and crenellated with its corresponding passage, with four cubes on the outside and three inside, arranged around the large Maestra or Tribute Tower, free, square plan and three floors. The tower, 19 meters high, is built with lime mortar and sand, (tapial), inside retains the oldest example, in vaults of Almohad style. It was conquered by King Jaime l the Conqueror in the month of February of 1245 after a siege that lasted six months, in this assault was used the "Fonevol," war machine for the throwing of stones. His last Warden according to the Llibre D'els Fets, was MUZA-ALMORABIT. Schedule: Wednesday Friday: 10:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m .; 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays: 10:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. It opens on Mondays for groups by appointment. € 1 Adults and children from 6 years old.

They constitute as a whole a defensive system of Andalusian origin formed by several enclosures murados to different height. Castle of Orihuela (BIC). Ninth-eighteenth century. It is a work of precalifal origin, which lasts with successive additions until the War of Succession, being destroyed in 1709. In it, several well-differentiated zones are distinguished functionally. The highest area is occupied by the Alcazaba, seat of political and military power, below it a line of towers delimits the albacar, enclosure with livestock functions as well as defensive, another series of towers are located around the seminary, where he was the original population. A whole series of walls and towers link the citadel with the walls of the city that ran along the river. Walls of the city (BIC). XI-XV century. They extend from the Monte de San Miguel to the Segura River. The walls of the city started from the albacar to encompass the original nucleus of the city (current seminar) and its subsequent expansion to the river. Currently there are several unconnected sections of the walls, two towers at the end of Calle Torreta, the Torre de Embergoñes, the Tower of Casa Casinello in Calle Soleres, the stretch preserved in the Museum of the Wall, under the Aulario del Campus of the Salesas of the Miguel Hernández University and several canvases and towers on the Monte de San Miguel, in the vicinity of the Diocesan Seminary. Puerta de la Olma or Crevillente. It is the only preserved remnant of the Cerca del Arrabal de San Juan. Ashlar work Entrance with a half-point arch and on it a guardian angel with a sword, representing the royal arm in the Valencian Cortes, accompanied by the quadribarrado shield, the Oriol Bird (emblem of the city) and an inscription that dates the door in 1558: “En lo ani de nostra redemcio MDLVIII se acaba aquest portal sent ivrats los molt magnifichs senors Melchor Groadellas Ivan Fernandes de Tvesta Frances Almodover Andre Manresa Ivan Miro”.

The Castillo-Fortaleza is a magnificent example of Renaissance military architecture of the sixteenth century. Projected in 1553 by the Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, its cost was borne by D. Bernardino de Cárdenas, Viceroy of Valencia, within the "Plan for the defense of the coasts of the Kingdom of Valencia." With its defensive structure it faced the attacks pirates of the Berbers who ravaged the coast. At the end of the works in 1557, a garrison composed of 33 people and their families were installed inside: the warden, an ensign, thirty soldiers and a chaplain, who lived on the walls of the Castle. With the passage of time, civilian uses replaced the military. On July 9, 1859 the Castle became the property of the City Council, carrying out renovation works, aimed at the building losing its character as a fortress. Since then, the site has been used for the performance of functions of various kinds, becoming headquarters of the Town Hall, Civil Guard Barracks, Court of Peace, hospital and even an improvised bullring. Currently, the Castillo-Fortaleza Cultural Center has the following facilities: Museum of the Sea, Municipal Exhibition Hall, Auditorium "Baluarte del Duque de Arcos" and Chapel of the Virgin of Loreto. The Patio or Plaza de Armas is part of the historical set of Castillo-Fortaleza and has a strategic location in Santa Pola. Visitors can not leave without having known it as a mandatory passage that connects the two parts of the urban area. It is a vital nucleus in all the epochs of its historical process. The Patio de Armas in its beginnings was a fortified enclosure, with a single access, easy to defend because the threat of possible attacks came by sea. Important historical events have also been raised: the Moors of El Arrabal de Elche were concentrated there, when they were expelled in 1609 to leave the port to the north of Africa, guarded by a company of musketeers and another of arcabuceros belonging to the Naples thirds and Sicily. Another important historical event was the visit of D. Alfonso XII on March 16, 1877 in the Royal Square. Teodoro Llorente, Valencian writer, recounts his visit to the Castle: When Don Alfonso entered the fortified area of ​​the old castle of the old town, all the girls of the place were aligned in correct formation within that great square, dressed in their best clothes and carrying a beautiful palm on his shoulder. On the occasion of this visit, Santa Pola was granted the title of Villa, in the presence of the Minister of the Navy and the Captain General of the Maritime Department. For a long time, concretely from 1860 when a new access was opened in the wall to the east, it was a zone of free passage, with which little by little it lost its character of Plaza de Armas, arriving sometimes to realize in it bullfighting spectacles . In recent years it has been recovering as a cultural space for Santa Pola, where recreational-cultural activities, religious and institutional events take place.

The Torre del Tamarit, also known as Torre de la Albufera or Torre de las Salinas, has a square floor plan and is located between Torre del Pinet and Castillo-Fortaleza de Santa Pola. Being a little away from the coast, its main function was not to monitor the maritime coastline, but to allow communication with the towers of the Elche field and monitor the salt pans. The tower of the Tamarit, owned by Bras del Port SA, is located in an exceptional place, in one of the lagoons of the Natural Park of the Saltworks of Santa Pola, which houses various environments: the salt works near the sea, the water pools sweet permanently flooded and its peripheral areas. The fauna and flora adapt to the conditions of humidity and high salinity. The concentrations of flamingos that add up to thousands of specimens are spectacular. It also highlights the presence of the White Jar, the Pardilla Teal, the Avoceta, the Cigüeñela, the Black-rumped Chorlitejo, the Charrancito or the Common Tern. 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.

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 at the eastern end of Cape Santa Pola, on an old watchtower of the sixteenth century, called Atalayola. It was installed in 1858 for the orientation of the ships that sail along these coasts at night, especially for the Navy ships, which anchored in the bay of Santa Pola in the year of its construction. It currently has a light source located 152 meters above sea level and 15 meters above the ground; its appearance is FGpD (2 + 1) B with a period of 20 "; Its maximum range is 16 miles and is a visual reference of great help for navigation. From here you can see a magnificent view of the bay of Santa Pola, Alicante and the Island of Tabarca. In the clearest days you can see Cabo Cervera and Isla Grosa to the south and Peñón de Ifach to the east.

La Torreta de Elda is a medieval defensive building located in the municipality of Elda, in the province of Alicante. It is considered as an Asset of Cultural Interest. It is located at a height of 550 meters and is a rectangular tower with four annexes, also rectangular. The date of construction is calculated between the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century. Its objective responded to the border location between the kingdoms of Castile and Valencia. In particular, the turret protected the road between Elda and Sax, as well as the path of La Noguera, which heads towards Petrel. It is documented that in 1386, the lady of Elda, Sibila de Forcia, asked Pedro IV de Aragón for a surveillance and customs service. Its continued use is recorded in a document of 1494 between the County of Cocentaina and the Bishopric of Cartagena, in which the Torreta is cited as possession of the then Lord of Elda, Juan Roig de Corella. In December of 1705, the Turret was used for military surveillance, in the context of the War of Succession. After the War of Independence it lost its function and was abandoned.

Located on the coast of Orihuela, in the urbanization of Cabo Roig. It is a military building of the watch tower type, it was built in the XVI century, in order to watch the coast and prevent the attacks of pirates and Berbers. His location (in the middle of a geographical accident) gave him a much wider vision of the area he was watching. The tower is a cylindrical construction with a base at the base, on the slope is located the access door. It was made in masonry, arranging ashlars in the openings as the entrance door. The surface of the façade is slightly inclined, with the base plan being wider than the terrace. so that more than a cylinder has raised cylindrical trunk. After its restoration, a layer of white lime was superimposed on the facade to decorate it, hence its current white color. The entire facade is dotted with numerous small windows with which to monitor the area that corresponded. The slope of the base reaches the height of three meters. The interior is arranged in two heights and terrace. The first corresponds to the ground floor, the second to the first floor and finally the terrace. Of its interior it is only remarkable the vault that divides the tower in two heights (ground floor and first floor) made in bricks. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest.

The Palace of the Marquises of Ruvalcaba, or Ruvalcaba Palace, is an Oriolan palace that was formerly owned by the Sagredo Bassieres and Heredia Marquises de Ruvalcaba family. In the 1980s it was acquired by the municipality of Orihuela, the current owner, as a place for large receptions in the city. At present it is closed to visitors. The Palace was built by the 1930s, on the site that was left after the Abacial House of the Church of Santiago collapsed. It belonged to the family of the Marquis of Rubalcava, constituting this his residence. It was acquired by the Hon. Orihuela City Council in 1981, with the aim of conserving and being able to offer the public its interior and to give it a social and cultural use. In 1981 the municipal office of tourism was installed there, occupying it until nowadays. However, this has not been the only use it has had since in 1982 the Association of Moors and Christians Festivities "Santas Justa y Rufina" used part of its ground floor as its headquarters; in 1986 it became the Archaeological Museum and in 1990 it was used as the headquarters of the Municipal Department of Social Services. The Rubalcava Palace was included in its day in the "Provisional Guide of Architecture of Orihuela" due to its evident architectural interest, edited by the Historical Archive Commission of the College of Architects of Alicante. At the moment it appears in the Catalog of the Special Plan of Protection of the Historical Helmet of Orihuela. The building consists of three main floors with small mezzanines. At first the ground floor was used as an office, home of the landlords and garages. The first floor, which is the main area of ​​the palace, is occupied by a series of ostentatious rooms. Also in it was the main kitchen. On the second floor were the bedrooms of the marquesal family and on a mezzanine floor a second kitchen. Apart the palace consists of gardens with an iron gate on masonry walls. These walls contribute to isolate the building from the outside, while providing recreational areas, with fountains and benches of tiles and wrought iron. The building was built imitating the scheme of the baroque Oriolan palaces. The scheme that followed the Ruvalcaba palace of said Oriolan palaces is to have a hallway illuminated by a Neo-Baroque dome with an elliptical plan and access to the main floor by means of a marble staircase with Valencian tile base.

This is a luxurious noble Roman villa constructed in the IV Century AD. It is made up of a large patio with columns surrounded by a wide corridor which gives access to 7 rooms -triclinium (dinning room), oecus (living room) and cubicula (bedrooms)- decorated with polychrome geometrical mosaics and mural paintings. This mansion must have been the residence of a rich family which was involved in the Portus Illicitanus. An aristocratic landowning family lived in this house. Like all rich people of the time, they placed great importance on the decorating of rooms, using materials such as marble, alabaster and making paintings and mosaics. In order to avoid the darkness of the nights, they lit up the house with oil lamps (made of clay or bronze). Due to their religiousness, they had a special place in the house where they worshiped the gods, above all Venus, the goddess of the fishermen.