Tallada Cave (marine cave with natural swimming pools)

Parks and Nature

Cova Tallada is an impressive place of marine caves. They are accessible both on foot and by kayak. It has a series of natural pools that are fantastic for swimming and diving. The cave is spectacular, it is about 75 meters wide and 15 meters high. It was excavated in its day to obtain coarse with which singular buildings like the own castle of Denia were constructed. The sea enters the cave forming small pools of cold water, as it does not receive the sun's rays. If you want to continue investigating, the cave has many large passages, already without any lighting, essential lanterns, which is where the rough or sandstone for the constructions was extracted, Some room is huge. There are also pools that accumulated the filtered water of the mountain. In summer they do not drip but in the months when there has been rain you can see the drops of water that are stored in these pools. At the entrance of one of these rooms you can read an inscription on the rock that indicates that Philip II was there in 1599.