Heritage towns in Alicante
14 towns in this province.
A castle town above a reservoir in Alicante province, where a Muslim fortress on bare rock passed through medieval kingdoms, earthquakes, and war to become one of Valencia's designated historic monuments.
A castle town in Alicante province whose Bronze Age treasure, medieval fortress, and Gothic-Renaissance church mark it as one of the most historically layered stops on the Valencian stretch of Spain's inland roads.
A city in Alicante province where layers of civilisation, Iberian, Roman, Moorish, Gothic, Baroque, stack up against a ruined castle on the hill and a cathedral full of Velázquez and Salzillo below.
A fortified coastal town in Alicante province where a Gothic church anchors a historic core of whitewashed houses built in golden porous stone, the whole old quarter pushed two kilometres inland for centuries by the threat of pirate raids.
A whitewashed hilltop town on the Costa Blanca, its twin-domed parish church visible for miles and its old quarter of cobbled lanes and flower-hung houses dropping down to a fishing harbour on the Mediterranean.
A town in Alicante province where a Gothic-military castle crowns the hill above a medieval Arab quarter whose streets have barely changed in eight centuries.
A fortified frontier town in Alicante province, its hilltop castle bearing the Latin motto "I close and open the kingdom", and a Gothic aqueduct, medieval gateway, and ancient castle vault to prove the claim.
An industrial-revolution city in Alicante province, built across deep river gorges, with a Gothic tower, a medieval castle, a Santiago Calatrava underground hall, and a local coffee liqueur dating back eight centuries.
A Mediterranean port city in Alicante province, Dénia rises from a Roman and Moorish past to a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, its Arab-era castle overlooking old fishermen's quarters and a coast famous for one of Spain's most prized prawns.
On the slopes of La Mola hill northwest of Alicante, an Almohad castle and a Gaudí-inspired modernist sanctuary stand side by side above a town whose streets carry traces of Roman roads, Moorish settlers, and medieval lordship.
A coastal town in Alicante whose Bronze Age origins, Roman baths, medieval walls, and Gothic fortress-church trace more than three thousand years of continuous human settlement along the same stretch of shoreline.
A coastal town in Alicante province where prehistoric cave sites, a Moorish past, and a string of watchtowers built against Barbary pirates trace three thousand years of Mediterranean life.
Spain's only inhabited fortified island, sitting off the Alicante coast with intact stone walls, a baroque church, and waters protected by the country's first marine reserve.
A small hamlet in Alicante province that grew up entirely around a Renaissance sanctuary, whose patron virgin draws crowds of 25,000 for one of the region's most-attended summer pilgrimages.