Tourism Calpe

In SH Ifach Hotel Calpe you can have access to this little quick guide of monuments in Calpe to plan your holidays. Take a tour of the major monuments (Roman ruins, Muslim frotresses, Christian towers, etc.)and Tourism in Calpe. We talk about a past rich in culture and history.

Los Baños de la Reina. It is a rectangular enclosure divided into six compartments by a longitudinal wall and two transverse. Also consists of four channels for water ingress two are separated by a triangular breakwater. Near the mouth of the channels are retained in the slots of the gates or boards that closed the campus. All these works are carved in stone "coarse". Although the toponym "Baños de la Reina" refers to a function resort, reserved according to legend, a certain "hopscotch" in reality we are facing a complex nursery communicated among themselves and with the sea. The compartments could keep different species of live fish, whose purpose could be the consumption of the population center nearby, of which vestiges remain in the excavations nearby. Dating in this cluster corresponds to the Late Roman period (IV-V century AD). These baths are one good example of Tourism in Calpe.

Castillo-Fortaleza. Adjacent to the ravine Mascarat, are located the ruins of Muslim Castle of Calpe. These are the remains of a watchtower built in the late sixteenth century to prevent attacks by pirates. There remains one wall of the tower seen in the loopholes, and defensive side of the canvas the way of access. It holds the base of the tower. Historical and sixteenth-century military architecture, was built on the site and the materials of the former Castell de Calp (siglos XII-XIV). We still see remnants of the base of the wall paintings and wells dug in the rock.

Tower of the part (Peça). It is the bulwark of defense that housed the "sin", a piece of artillery which defended the Christian core of the fifteenth century onwards and which owes its name. Today we stand at the tower two guns of the four taken in the port of Calpe and English manufacturing date from the early fourteenth century. Conical base, the upper portion is cylindrical. The construction system is based on stone mortar. One of the most attractive monuments in Calpe.

Torre del Castellet. It's situated on a hill 140 meters north of the Sierra de Toix. Served as a watchtower to the coast as the road linking the coast to Calpe and Altea.
It is a square tower of retaining the shape of the plant razed to the foundation level and part of one of the smaller walls. It is built of brick wall, while the top demolished, making it impossible to know whether the original height was present or had more height tower. Shown in a course of masonry brick wall.
It is unknown the exact timing of its construction but would be embedded between the XV and XVII, as this place was already Iberian settlements, Muslims and Christians.

Casa Nueva. Typical house fortified, historic and architectural interest, which integrates the areas of housing and work (lar Almàssera, corrals and stables). Built probably in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, the building is a visual landmark and landscape that dominates most of the municipality. Main body consists of a compact, rectangular, three storeys and gable roof, with hollow ends of the first floor flat converted into balcony railings. In the main building are attached to the rear face a number of bodies creating two courtyards, an outer and an inner housing that articulate with the work areas. The traditional materials used are generally of stone masonry construction is mixed. Outstanding in his run forward facade of rough stone and carved on the hollow machicolation access

Pou Salat. Eighteenth-century rural building to which attending Calpe source of water for domestic use, watering hole also served until 1878 was carried out from driving Pou Roig Calpe.

Torre del Moli or Molino del Morelló. Building representative of the flour mills of the Navy, which was built on the foundations of a watchtower built in the times of Felipe II to protect the coast from pirate invasions. Built in the mid-nineteenth century based on masonry walls, has two floors and circular base, reaching 7 meters high.

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