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The inland counties. Around Alicante (Part III)

is true that most people who travel to Alicante doing it to enjoy its long beaches and warm climate and sunny, but we must not forget that there are some inland counties that are well worth a visit.

Leaving Altea Calpe direction to go to the small town of El Castell de Guadalest .

few kilometers before reaching Callosa d'en Sarrià are starting to see many plantations of persimmons, mandarins and lemons as well. The medlar of Callosa d'en Sarrià are protected designation of origin and are grown in greenhouses that cover the entire side of the mountain. Its production area includes also other sites that belong to the Marina District Baixa, spanning the Guadalest river valley to the coast.

The CV-755 road is narrow and winding but few have to travel miles to El Castell de Guadalest. By far, because people can see the postcard on top of a cliff, where some buildings seem to blend with the rock.

The old town is closed to traffic of vehicles should be parked in a compound just outside. The town is very touristy and since 1974 has been declared Historic-Artistic . Its proximity to large resorts received a year ago over two million visitors, a figure that far exceeds the registered inhabitants numbering only about 170 inhabitants.

old center is accessed through a tunnel in the mountain.

The first thing is the Orduña House , now a museum and would visit later. Nearby, the tiny parish church dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption.

The nucleus itself is very small and a main street with shops selling crafts and typical products of the area, leading to the town square, a modest building commensurate with the size of the municipality that houses low as it was a prison in the twelfth century.

From the vantage point provides a beautiful view: the blues Guadalest water reservoir that collects water from the river of the same name, surrounded by the Sierra de Aitana, Serrella and Xort.

visited the ethnographic museum , a typical eighteenth century showing the rooms and furnishings typical the time and the process of obtaining oil, wine and flour from their raw materials. I love that kind of museum and conservation work of the utensils that were used for different farm work and home.

Another museum worth visiting is the noble Orduña House, built by the family of the same name that came to Guadalest as people Cardona confidence, admirals of Aragon. The members of this family had great economic and social influence and enjoyed a strong cultural. The rooms of the house correspond to the moments of greatest splendor of Orduña and adapts to the tastes of the bourgeoisie of the time.

From the ground floor of the house can access the ruins of Castillo de San José from where you get magnificent views of the people and the entire the valley.

The tower Alcozaiba Castle is also All that remains of the second strength, along with the Castillo de San José, formed the fortifications of Guadalest structure.

These lands belonged to Sharq Al-Andalus, east of Muslim Hispania. Following the demise of the Caliphate in the early eleventh century, the Muslim Hispania faces a fragmented into small independent kingdoms. Alicante area became the crossroads of conquest, as it was between two kingdoms, neighbors and rivals, Valencia and Murcia, also interested in incorporating land to the respective Alicante Crowns of Aragon and Castile. Were conquered by King James I to the Crown of Catalonia - Aragon to the 1245, constituting for a while the southern border of the newly created Kingdom of Valencia.

El Castell de Guadalest was a very important role due to its strategic situation. From the remains that have come down today, highlights the Torre del Homenaje . Little else can be seen as a major earthquake in 1644 destroyed a large part and in 1708 during the War of Succession, the explosion of a mine destroyed the west wing. In 1848, the walls were demolished.

Leaving Guadalest and we went to Alcoy the CV-70. It took just over an hour to cross the 36 miles between two towns, but the scenery is worth it. Alcoy is known as the city of bridges and it is clear why. The cross three rivers and several ravines forced the construction of these bridges as the best solution.

Some of the most important bridges Alcoy are: the Bridge of the Seven Moons , the Bridge Pechina , the Puente de San Jorge , the Puente de María Cristina and the Puente de Fernando Reig .
Alcoy is a city that has preserved its festivals and traditions, one of the most important of Moros y Cristianos . Many cities and towns of Alicante that recall the battles between the two sides, but the party Alcoy has a special gauge.

have their origin in the Battle of Alcoy produced in 1276 at the gates of the city and are traditionally assumed to pitted residents Alcoy with the troops of the Muslim leader Alazraq . Legend has it that at the key moment of the battle appeared the figure of St. George riding a horse on the walls of the city and that the figure decided the outcome the Battle. Precisely for this reason, St. George became the patron saint of the city and the festival is celebrated on 23 April.

celebrations Another concern is the Cavalcade of the Magi dating back to 1885, making it the oldest in Spain. In Alcoy, the holidays are announced more than a century with mounting Tirisiti Belen, an original puppet theater that is represented in the Teatre Principal and mixing elements such as the birth of Jesus or the arrival of the Kings Magi, with aspects and customs.

With the advice and the plane got in the tourist office we walked through the streets and squares of the city for civil and religious buildings of most interest. On the street you hear the valencià as predominant language, and I like. Not so in most tourist locations where it is difficult to find someone who speaks the language of this land.

In the central Plaça d'Espanya is the Town Hall, Town Hall current and back of the Church Santa Maria , which emphasizes the slim tower and dome tiles. Because the extensions of the population has fallen back to the current focus of giving Alcoy Alcoy main facade to the old, in the pit Placeta.

The Plaça de Dins is a charming arcaded square (S. XIX) adapted the neo-classical cloister of the old church St. Augustine. Here is the entrance to the Teatre Principal and several local make the square a meeting place. This year we have mounted in the center of the plaza Belén Bancaja itinerant subtracts much of its charm.

The Alcoy core old heir to the planning is developed in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a pioneer city of the English industrial revolution, the textile industries, working-class neighborhoods and homes of the bourgeoisie lived in a small space between valleys and rivers. Modernism left an important mark in Alcoy, being Casa del Pavo one of the most representative of that class of Alcoy bienestante early twentieth century. Its name comes from turkey topped the lintel of the door. As being characteristic of modernism, but also emphasizes work in forging their viewpoints and balconies.

strolled aimlessly through the old part of town where, as in all parties, living the best of its history with the neglect and decay.

We left the city who have left the great artists, like Ovid Montllor, Camilo Sesto, or Francisco. What I doubt is that Alcoy has left very good players, at least as well-known expression "to have more moral than the Alcoy. He said that his football team not well understood at what point in its history, was losing by a score of 13-0 and the referee asked for an extension to get the tie.

Ah! and do not forget that Alcoy has also given the world anchovy stuffed olives, born in the 20's when industrialized the deboning process, filling and packaging. The promoter of this business was the textile industry looked Candido Rabassa, founder of Olives The Serpis. In the 40 other major brand was born, the English. Both El Serpis as the English have respective museums you closer to the history and origins of this tasty industry.