Costa Blanca

From Valencia to San Javier

by Dr Alan P Newman

33 Places

El Castell de Guadalest

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Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences)

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Benidorm, Spain

Intempo Building

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

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Elda Footwear Museum

This Spanish shoe museum has history, has design, and has a pair of Rafael Nadal's tennies!

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Treasure of Villena

A significant cache of prehistoric valuables is on display in an unassuming museum tucked inside a town hall.

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Jug Museum - Museo del Botijo

Containing a personal collection of more than 1,200 jugs from around the world.

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Tibi Dam (Pantano de Tibi)

Possibly the oldest masonry dam in all of Europe.

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El Campello, Spain

El Campello Moors and Christians Festival

In this coastal town, the time-honored tradition of reenacting the struggle between the Christians and Moors includes the arrival of the Moorish fleet.

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Alicante, Spain

Hogueras de Alicante (Bonfires of Alicante)

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.

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Alicante, Spain

Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ)

Fascinating exhibits of prehistoric and ancient artifacts displayed with a uniquely modern touch.

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The Ceramics of Manises

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

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Alicante, Spain

Lucentum

A well-restored ancient archaeology site gives a real feel for life during the Roman age.

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Palmeral of Elche

Originally planted by the ancient Carthaginians, this sprawling palm grove is one of the largest in the world.

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El Castell de Guadalest, Spain

Museo de Saleros y Pimenteros

Continental Europe's only museum devoted to salt and pepper shakers features more than 20,000 designs.

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El Campello, Spain

Illeta dels Banyets

The legendary bathing site of a Moorish queen is actually part of a Roman fish farm.

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Alicante, Spain

Archibald Dickson Memorial

A monument at Alicante Marina honors a little-known hero of the Spanish Civil War.

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Old Payá Toy Factory

Ibi's pioneering toy factory now houses two small but mighty museums.

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Ibi Toy Locomotive Sculpture

An enormous roadside attraction in the heart of Spain's toy-making hub.

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Medieval Aqueduct of Biar

This 15th-century aqueduct with distinctive pointed arches was used for irrigation in the Vinalopó valley.

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The Walking Students of Ibi

Oversized versions of a beloved toy dot a children's playground in a Spanish toymaking town.

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Ontinyent, Spain

Pou Clar

Locals use these rock pools and waterfalls for swimming and cliff diving.

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The Upside Down Painting of King Philip V

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

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Banyeres de Mariola, Spain

Valencian Paper Museum

A lovely look back at the manufacture and use of paper in all its forms.

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Peñíscola, Spain

Bufador de Peñiscola

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

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Valencia, Spain

Central Market of Valencia

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

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Llotja de Sant Jordi

This exhibition space designed to look like the skeleton of a whale is hidden underground.

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Novelda Shrine of Mary Magdalene

The 20th-century church looks like a rustic version of the Sagrada Familia.

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Banyeres de Mariola, Spain

Museo Torre Font Bona

An archaeological museum squeezed into a narrow 15th-century gate tower accessed only by a spiral staircase.

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Centenary Tree of Plaça de la Palla

This beloved ancient tree is the pride of this city center.

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Colony of Santa Eulalia

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

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Pozos de Garrigós (Garrigós Wells)

These three hand-dug cisterns once held nearly a million liters of water as a backup supply during drought.

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The Canelobre Caves

This magnificent tourist cave,with the highest ceiling of any in Spain, was once an anti-fascist arms dump and war factory and is now a concert venu.

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Locomotive No. 2 of the Alcoi-Gandia Railway

This 130-year-old, steam locomotive represents the Spanish industrial and agricultural boom of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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