Fortress of the XI century, created by the Muslims, is located on the rock in the highest part of the municipality. It had a very important role throughout the Middle and Modern Ages, thanks to its strategic location. The earthquakes of 1644 and 1748 and the blast that he suffered in 1708 in the War of Succession were the culprits of its destruction.

The Castillo de la Mola is located on a small hill at 360 m. of altitude in relation to the sea. It is 3 km away. from the town of Novelda, in northwest direction. Fort of Islamic origin, it was built at the end of the 12th century. Its plant is polygonal with eight quadrangular cubes in salient, of which at the moment only there are four, two of them masked, with a square tower in its interior, at present desmochada, all this of tapial factory, on base of masonry. This exempt tower has 9 m. of side by 11 of height, although at the moment it lacks a floor; It has a lower room illuminated by an embrasure. You enter the tower through a half-point door and located in height. After the Christian conquest of the Castle by the hosts of the Infante Don Alfonso de Castilla, land and strength passed to the Castellana Crown. With the signing of the Pact of Elche in 1305, the Castle and its dependencies pass to the Aragonese Crown, forming part of these lands of the Kingdom of Valencia. It is then when the fortress is donated to Doña Blanca d'Anjou, wife of Jaime II, who orders the reconstruction of its deteriorated walls, taking place during the fourteenth century, a series of reforms in the fortified enclosure, and building on its northwest flank a magnificent triangular tower. The tower of 15 m. on the side by 17 m. of height has no known parallels to the present; It is made of masonry, with reinforcement of chairs in the corners. It is accessed through a semi-circular door facing northwest and located in height, masonry factory. It has two floors and its interior lighting is made through several loopholes. In the middle of the 14th century, the Aragonese King Pedro the Ceremonious, gives the possession of the Castle to Beltrán du Glesquin, noble Breton come to the Iberian Peninsula with the White Companies, as payment for his help in the War of the Pedros, a year later . In 1367 it is sold to Hugo de Calviley, who in 1371 sells it to Mateo de Gornay, Lord of Novelda. Years later he goes back to the crown, being donated by Pedro IV to his wife Doña Sibila de Forcia. In 1391, Don Pedro Maza de Lizana, Lord of Mogente and Chinosa, bought La Mola from Doña Violante de Bar, and in 1448 the Barony of Novelda was established. From that moment the Mola was part of this important manor house, until the abolition of the manors in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Since 1931 it has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest. Open to the public every day of the year. Free entrance. From Monday to Sunday from 10am to 2pm and from 4pm to 7pm. (Winter) From Monday to Sunday from 10am to 2pm and from 5pm to 8pm. (Summer)

It rises from a height of 830 meters. It is an exponent of Islamic culture. It is a fortress of great dimensions and although it has been reconstructed in its entirety, remains of its primitive construction can still be seen. The different enclosures bring us closer to past times and their ways of life. It consists of a polygonal floor plan with a double walled enclosure, in which the Torre del Homenaje stands out, dating back to the Almohade period (12th - 13th centuries) built using the mud technique (lime, sand, water and small stones). The access to the site is made by the northeast, where we access the courtyard, here was located the bloodmill (powered by animal traction). If we go up the stairs we find a second door in ashlar masonry dating from 1803 that gives us access to two other rooms, on the right the cistern and on the other side the rooms that housed the surveillance troops. The last section takes us to the keep, where the Fester Museum is located and consists of 3 floors. From the top of the tower you can see 4 provinces (Albacete, Murcia, Alicante and Valencia) In addition, the castle has witnessed several wars, including the war of succession that took place in 1705, where he welcomed the population fleeing the sieges and fires that the town suffered several times. The fidelity shown to Felipe V in this war was rewarded with the title of noble, faithful, loyal and real villa, which currently appears on the municipality's coat of arms.

The Castle of the River is located 4 kilometers from the town of Aspe, (Vinalopó Medio), on a mound near the confluence of the Tarafa River with the Vinalopó River, from its location you can also see the Castle of La Mola in Novelda and the tower of Monforte del Cid. It is a walled enclosure located on a mound called "Tabayá" near the confluence of the Tarafa river with the Vinalopó, 3 km from the current Casco Urbano. Of Almoravid origin, concretely of the first third of Century XII, it was the first settlement nucleus of Aspe, known like "Aspe el Viejo"; In spite of it, in their environs also they have been rest of a previous establishment in the Iberian time. The walled enclosure, formed by 12 towers, lacks a keep and is currently partially demolished. In spite of this, canvases of walls and the base of several of their towers are conserved. The different investigations that have taken place in it, due to its great archaeological importance, allow us to see excavations thanks to which the visitor can get an idea of ​​what that enclosure should have been, built in its base in masonry, and from 1 , 5 m of rammed earth and boulders. It found one of the only two Arab plows found in all of Spain and is currently exposed in the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ). It is easily accessible through the road that connects Aspe with the Madrid-Alicante motorway.

It rises on one of the two hills that dominate the town of the same name, northeast of the town, in the Middle Vinalopó (Alicante, Spain). The Castle of Monóvar was built in the Almohad period, between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th, and was used until the beginning of the 17th century. It had a privileged situation, from which dominated the network of fortifications that marked the Vinalopó River, (the castles and the Elda turret, and Petrel Castle), as well as the communication route of the Pinoso-Jumilla corridor, natural exit towards Murcia and Andalusia. It was a castle with an irregular plan, similar to a triangle. In the center is the Homage Tower, where there was also a cistern. You can also see remains of a smaller tower on the north face, and some canvases of the wall. In the archaeological excavations that have been made on the hill where the castle was erected, archaeological remains from the Bronze Age, fragments of Almohad pottery from the 12th and 13th centuries, a piece of jewelery from the 15th or 16th centuries and fragments of jugs, plates and bowls from the fourteenth century onwards. At present it is in ruins and only retains part of a tower, recently restored.

The obligatory visit of the traveler who arrives at Novelda is to the Sanctuary of Santa María Magdalena. This religious building was built from a project drawn up by the novel engineer Don José Sala Sala who imbued his project with the Catalan modernist style. Its construction, begun in 1918, required three phases, to complete the work in 1946. Two 25 m lateral towers stand out on the main façade. of height culminated by a stony cross, which is also found in the dome and on the upper arches of the façade. The decorative reasons would have antecedents in the medieval styles, baroque and in the own nature; influences that led the author to combine pebbles from the Vinalopó river, polychrome tiles, bricks, reddish colors, masonry, etc., which are reflected throughout the exterior of the building. The interior is composed of a rectangular central nave with two attached side spaces; In the background, in the apse, is the dressing room of St. Mary Magdalene, Patroness of Novelda, and behind the altar we can admire a beautiful painting attributed to Gaston Castelló. The maintenance and restoration works are constant, the last of them carried out during the year 2006 where the pictorial recovery of several of the canvases that decorate the temple was carried out and among which the work of the renowned artist should be highlighted. Alicante artist Gastón Castelló located in the center of the altar.

The Castle of Alcozaiba is located in the part of the rocky cliffs of greater verticality of the town of El Castell de Guadalest, province of Alicante. The fortress of Alcozaiba was built in the 11th century by the Muslims, and is located in the domain of the old Casa Orduña. Guadalest, a town of Islamic origin, whose fortifications were considered very valuable, was conquered by the troops of Jaime I, who yielded it to Vidal de Sarrià, whose family he belonged to until 1335, and later to the Infante Pedro de Aragón. From 1543 it was the center of the Marquesado de Guadalest, with which Carlos I distinguished Sancho Folc de Cardona and Ruíz de Lihory. It exerted its territoriality over a large number of population centers, most of which were depopulated after the expulsion of the Moors in 1609. It is noteworthy that the Orduña family maintained a permanent link with the city, as wardens of their strengths, governors or justices. A strong earthquake in 1644 seriously affected the fortification and the houses of the town. During the War of Succession it would suffer serious damage again due to the explosion of a mine. The defensive structure of the old Guadalest was composed of two castles, the castle of Alcozaiba and the castle of San José. The castle of San José is of Muslim origin. Currently, only one tower remains that has been restored.

Day by day, as a jealous guardian of the people, with the vibrant sound of the bell that gets into our minds by printing new strength and essence reminds us of the time of relentless work, media transformation, maturation and progress. Its history dates back to 1887, being mayor D. Francisco Rico Lucas, when he remembers asking a project for a tower architects of Alicante D. José Guardiola Picó and D. Enrique Sánchez Sedeño. In 1889 a new watch is bought in Madrid, for 11,000 pesetas. (Present), which would consist of machinery, three bells (large classic, and two smaller hemispherical), four areas, weights for rope and a floor for support campanile. It is wound with a crank, pushing weights hanging from two separate wire rope (as is done with a cuckoo). Weights are three: 500, 200 and 100 kilos; The big one is for hours, the median for the quarter, and lower the clock keeps running.

The archaeological site El Monastil (Property of Cultural Interest), of municipal ownership, is one of the most representative and rich elements of Elda's historical heritage. It is located in the rural part of the same name, in the eastern foothills of the Sierra de la Torreta. Surrounded by the Vinalopó River, it occupies an approximate area of ​​3.5 hectares. The main access is made by the southern slope, connected to the north entrance (Elda-Hospital) from the A-31 highway (Madrid-Alicante). The occupation of this settlement dates from the end of the third millennium BC (Chalcolithic) and the Almohad period (13th century), with a special development between the Iberian culture and the Roman period. Throughout its history, El Monastil has maintained a constant central position in the Vinalopó River corridor, constituting, within the Elda Valley, a landmark on the traditional border between Alto and Medio Vinalopó. It has also been a strategic place to control the main historical communication routes between the coastal regions of Alicante and the interior of the peninsula. Settlement of the Bronze Age and enclave of the orientalizing period, it becomes an important Ibero-Roman oppidum, ranking the territory of the Middle and High Vinalopó during the second half of the first millennium BC. C. Most of the construction remains are located on the highest elongated spur of the site, the upper area of ​​the town, where remains of an Iberian, Roman and late Roman urbanism that shows houses of rectangular trend adapted to the irregularities of the place are preserved. , reused throughout these periods, and articulated around a central street that is divided into two roads to the western part of the settlement. On the southern slope of the town are the remains of a Iberian-Roman defensive system that fortified access to the oppidum, and that was possibly reused in the low-imperial and late-antiquarian periods. The remains of a singular warehouse of cereals are conserved outside the walls, located in the main southern terrace, which, in turn, houses a set of domestic and artisanal structures attached mainly to the Iberian and Roman periods. During this last period, El Monastil is traditionally associated with the Ad Ello mansion of Antonino's Itinerary. The vestiges of three kilns belonging to a pottery dating back to the late Roman period and the beginning of the imperial period stand out, as well as a small metallurgical furnace attached to the same stage. In the terraces closest to the river, south of the CV-8352 road, ceramic remains and vestiges of Iberian funerary monuments have been located. The upper part of the town is abandoned throughout the High Empire. After a broad chronological hiatus, during the low-imperial period the area is concerned, continuing the habitat until the Byzantine-Visigoth period, and beginning its decline and definitive abandonment during the Islamic era emiral. In the late antiquity period, the hypothesis linking El Monastil with the debated episcopal seat of Elo of the conciliar texts of Toledo stands out. Precisely in the western end of the high part of the deposit the vestiges of a Christian church of this stage are conserved. This church, which shows signs of abandonment and possible reuse in the early Islamic era, could be used as al-munastir. This denomination has remained substantially in the current name of the game and the archaeological site. Altogether, the archaeological site shows a relevant set of material constructions and vestiges of the following periods: Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Orientalizing, Iberian-old, full and final-, Roman-republican, altaimperial, bajoimperial-, Late-Byzantine-Byzantine and Visigothic, Islamic emiral and, to a lesser extent, the Caliphate and Almohad eras.

Constructed during the Almohade era between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th. After the Christian reconquest of the 13th century the main compound area and the wall were erected. This work to improve the defences was due to the stategic character of the historic frontier of Jijona, which from the Treaty of Almiza in 1244 marked the boundary of the kingdom of Aragon with the kingdom of Castille until 1304 when conquest by James II brought the townships of the south of the Alicante province into the kingdom of Valencia. Until then it was a key element in the defence of the Valencian border. At the foot of the castle, in an easterly direction, the town of Xixona expanded. Throughout the Middle Ages the importance of the castle diminished and so to did repairs to it. The last major work on it was recorded in the 15th century and there were some further minor repairs undertaken in the 16th century. During the war of succession it served as a refuge for the population of Jijona, who supported Philip V. It was attacked by the Archduke Carlos’s troops (Austracistas) and almost completely destroyed. In 1708 Philip V conceded the castle to the people of Jijona by royal decree.